The High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (HCFDS) (Russian: Высшие курсы сценаристов и режиссёров (ВКСР)) comprises a variety of optional...
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Andrei Tarkovsky (redirect from Concentrate (1958 film))
a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual...
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Igor Kovalyov (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors and were invited to join the animation faculty. Kievnauchfilm refused to let them go, and only...
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Timur Bekmambetov (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
Kazakh-born Russian film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004) and the action thriller...
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Paola Volkova (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
days of her life, she taught film design at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. In 1989-2002 — Director of the Andrei Tarkovsky Foundation...
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Rolan Bykov (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
Prize for his movie. Apart from his movie career Bykov also worked as an educator at High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Between 1986 and 1990...
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Zinaida Pronchenko (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
of History and Theory of Arts at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. She studied at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (workshop of...
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Andrei Konchalovsky (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
is a Russian film and theatre director, screenwriter, and producer. His filmmaking career spans over 60 years in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian...
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Aleksei Balabanov (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
кино) of the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, graduating in 1990. Starting from 1990 Balabanov lived and worked in St. Petersburg. In...
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Eugen Doga (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
for 13 plays, radio shows, more than 200 film scores, more than 260 songs and romances, more than 70 waltzes. He also composed works for children and...
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Olga Arlauskas (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
filmmaking and moved back to Russia. In 2006 she graduated as a documentary filmmaker from VKSR (High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors). Since...
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Georgiy Daneliya (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1989 and a laureate of the State Prize...
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Yuri Norstein (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. Since 1981, he has been working on a feature film called...
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Pavel Lungin (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
completed the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (Mikhail Lvovsky's Workshop). Lungin worked primarily as a scriptwriter until given the...
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Vladimir Menshov (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
2021) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. He was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Although Menshov...
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Yuli Karasik (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and film arts educator. 1968: Special prize at the XVI Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for The Sixth of...
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born in Leningrad and grew up in Kovdor. She studied at the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. She is an atheist and radical leftist. She...
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Sergei Ursuliak (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
and actor, and also presents programs on television. 1996: Kinotavr — Panorama prize for work by established directors Prize of Russian Guild of Film...
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Aleksandr Petrov (animator) (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
cinema and TV) and was a disciple of Yuriy Norshteyn at Moscow's Advanced School for Screenwriters and Directors. After making his first films in Russia...
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Grigory Chukhray (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
Chukhray headed the director's courses at VGIK. In 1965, he founded and headed the Experimental Studio at Mosfilm that produced such films as White Sun of...
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Aleksei Kapler (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
Man, The Blue Bird and Striped Trip, as well as one of the anchors and directors of TV program Kinopanorama (a cinema overview).[citation needed] In...
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Eduard Nazarov (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
Japanese and World Animation list at the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival in Tokyo. Between 1979 and 2000 Nazarov was teaching at the High Courses for Screenwriters...
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Neya Zorkaya (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
was a Soviet and Russian culturologist, literary film critic, literary and film scholar, and literary and film historian. She was also a film educator. Neya...
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Sulambek Mamilov (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
he graduated from High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (studied at the workshops of Marlen Khutsiev, Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov)....
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Artavazd Peleshyan (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
an Armenian director of essay films, a documentarian in the history of film art, a screenwriter, and a film theorist. He is renowned for developing a...
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Yuli Gusman (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
admitted to the Higher Film Directing Courses at Goskino. Upon graduating in 1976, he worked at Azerbaijanfilm directed such films as Iliq danizda buz parçasi...
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Yuliya Aug (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
Артуровна Ауг; born 8 June 1970) is a Soviet and Russian actress. Her film credits include The Student, Ekaterina and Leto. Aug is part of the Gogol Center (theater...
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Alexander Kaidanovsky (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker (1979), At Home Among Strangers (1974), and The Bodyguard...
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Nikita Mikhalkov (category Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors)
of Directors of Nikita Mikhalkov's Studio TRITE LLC. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cinema Park. President of the Moscow International Film Festival...
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Lion Izmailov (category High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni)
Моисе́евич По́ляк; born 5 May 1940 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian satirist writer, screenwriter and entertainer. He was born in Moscow on 5 May 1940 in...
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