Fyodor Bondarchuk

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Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (IPA: [ˈfʲodər sʲɪrˈgʲeɪvʲitʂ bəndʌrˈtʂuk], Russian: Фёдор Сергеевич Бондарчук, b. May 9, 1964) is a Russian film director and actor. He is the director of the acclaimed film 9th Company, and producer of the 2006 film Zhara, where he starred as himself with his mother.

He is the son of director Sergei Bondarchuk (who co-starred with him in Boris Godunov) and Irina Skobtseva, half-brother of Natalya Bondarchuk, and brother to Alyona Bondarchuk. He is married to television presenter Svetlana, and has one son. He presents several programmes on the STS network. His first full-scale film was 9th Company about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, which is sometimes referred to as a Russian "Platoon" or "Apocalypse Now".

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