Vadim Abdrashitov
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (Russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов) (Jan 19, 1945--) is a Russian film director.
Abdrashitov was born in Ukraine in a Tatar family, moved all over the Soviet Union with his father's military assignments, and moved to Moscow to study nuclear physics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He developed an interest in film, and began making films in the early 1970s. Many of his films were the result of a long collaboration with the writer Aleksander Mindadze.
[edit] Awards
- USSR State Prize--1991 Sluga
- Nika Award--2003 as best director
[edit] External links
 |
This Russian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
