Alexander Adabashyan

Actor writer designer and director Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan was born in Moscow in 1945 the same year as his friend and steady collaborator Nikita Mikhalkov The two mens varied pairings began in 1974 when Adabashyan production designed Mikhalkovs feature debut At Home Among Strangers Strangers at Home a low budget Borscht Western set during the bloody Russian civil war following the Bolshevik revolution Adabashyan has designed eight Mikhalkov films in all physically realizing such disparate visions as Moscow during the Khrushchev regime in 1979s Five Evenings midnineteenth century St Petersburg in 1980s Oblomov and the infant Soviet film industry in 1976s Slave of Love In addition Adabashyan has some two dozen writing credits to his name including multiple pairings with Mikhalkov After making his onscreen debut in At Home Among Strangers Adabashyan has made frequent appearances in Russian film and television primarily in character roles