| Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 19, 1945 |
| Occupation | Film director |
Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (Russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов, Tatar Cyrillic: Вадим Йосыф улы Габдерәшитов, Latin: Vadim Yosıf ulı Ğabderəşitov) (born 19 January 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.[1]
In 1989, he won the Alfred-Bauer Prize at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Servant.[2] The following year he was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] At the 45th Berlin International Film Festival in 1995, his film A Play for a Passenger won the Silver Bear.[4]