Alexander Gutman
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Alexander Ilyich Gutman , also spelt as Alexandre Goutman and Aleksandr Gutman) is a Russia
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. During over 30 years he has shot over 50 documentary film
s, 13 of them as film director. A winner of numerous awards at Russian and international film festival
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He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (now known as St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University) (1968) and VGIK (1978).
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
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Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. During over 30 years he has shot over 50 documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
s, 13 of them as film director. A winner of numerous awards at Russian and international film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
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He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (now known as St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University) (1968) and VGIK (1978).
Filmography
- Journey Back to YouthJourney Back to YouthJourney Back to Youth is a 2001 documentary film by Russian film makers, Alexander Gutman and Sergei Litviakov, an interview of four German women who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia placed into a Soviet labor camps by the end of World War II according to the Stalin's...
- Frescoes http://www.swashers.com/files_eng/pages_Films/AlexGutman.html, http://wbff.org/films/detail.asp?fid=279, about ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
(presented at the 2003 Sundance Film FestivalSundance Film FestivalThe Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
) - Blatnoi mir ("Thieves' World") (2001) (IMDB)
- Tri dnya i bolshe nikogda ("Three Days and Never Again") (1998) Grand Prix at the Stalker Film Festival in Moscow (IMDB)
- V poiskakh shchastya ("In Search of HappinessIn Search of HappinessIn Search of Happiness is a 2005 Russian documentary film that poetically follows the lives of Boris and Masha Rak, Soviet Jews who in 1934 moved to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast created by the order of Joseph Stalin in Russian Far East...
") (2005), follows the lives of two Jewish settlers to the Jewish Autonomous OblastJewish Autonomous OblastThe Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subject of Russia situated in the Russian Far East, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of China. Its administrative center is the town of Birobidzhan....
during 1934 - "The Russians Have Gone" (Russkiye ushli, 1991),
- "1244, 1245, 1246" (1994)
- "Up to the Neck or Bodybuilding" (Telo bez golovy ili bodibilding, 1996)
- "The Sunny Side of the Road" (Solnechnaya storona trassy, 2004)