Aleksandr Zeldovich

Aleksandr Yefimovich Zeldovich Russian Александр Ефимович Зельдович born 4 December 1958 Moscow is a Russian filmmaker theater director and screenwriter One of the cult Russian filmmakers A curious feature of Zeldovich career is that since 1990 his feature films have been released exactly once of every 10 years at the beginning of each decade In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University In 1986 he graduated from the Higher Courses of Screenwriters and Directors the workshop of Gleb Panfilov and Alexander Mitta Since 1986 director of the Mosfilm Film Studio He made his debut in the big cinema in 1990 with the film Sunset a fantasy on the themes of Isaac Babel The film was shown in the noncompetitive program of numerous festivals as well as at the Berlin Film Festival participation in the Forum program In 2000 Zeldovich presented his film Moscow based on a script written in collaboration with famous russian writer Vladimir Sorokin The film which has become an event of Russian cinema participated in the official program of the Venice Film Festival Cinema del Presente competition program and many other The premiere of the film Target 2011 also created according to the script in collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin took place at the Berlin Film Festival participation in the Panorama program The fourth fulllength film Medea 2021 was part of the official competition program at Locarno Film Festival