Alexandr Veledinsky
Alexander Alexeevich Veledinsky (Russian: Александр Алексеевич Велединский; born 27 July 1959; Gorky) is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He directed several films, but is most famous for The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013). The film won five Nika Awards (including the best film), five prizes at Kinotavr festival, and many other awards.
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students ... (more)
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students ... (more)
Alive (2006)
A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind. (more)
A veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind. (more)
Shadowboxing (2005)
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected... (more)
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected... (more)
Experiment 5ive (2011)
An anthology of five films of five minutes each by five well-known Russian directors, inspired and financed by the chewing gum company Wrigley. (more)
An anthology of five films of five minutes each by five well-known Russian directors, inspired and financed by the chewing gum company Wrigley. (more)
Just the Two of Us (2001)
A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia. (more)
A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia. (more)
In The Port of Cape Town (2019)
Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all a long, ... (more)
Sailor, Tillage and Salazhonok. They met only once, in the summer of 1945, in the Far East, in arms and with serious intentions. Everything ended in a firefight, and each of the participants is sure that he killed the other two. However, fate gave them all a long, ... (more)
It's Russian (2004)
Based on the novels and stories of Eduard Limonov. (more)
Based on the novels and stories of Eduard Limonov. (more)
Portrait (2011)
Locked in a bunker and faced with an impossible commission a young artist has to look beyond reality and logic, and face himself. (more)
Locked in a bunker and faced with an impossible commission a young artist has to look beyond reality and logic, and face himself. (more)