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Aleksandr Bashirov

Russian actor, director and screenwriter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Aleksandr Bashirov
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Alexander Nikolaevich Bashirov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Баширов; born 24 September 1955, in Sogom) is a Russian film and theater actor, director and screenwriter. He performed in more than sixty films since 1986.

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Biography

Bashirov was born on 24 September 1955 in the village of Sogom. He was born in a mixed family of ethnic Russian father Nikolay Zakharovich Kosygin and Siberian Tatar mother Mariya Katyrovna Bashirova.[1]

He married a US citizen and in 1990-1991 he studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York, periodically coming to the USSR to participate in the filming.

In 1996 he organized in St. Petersburg studio Deboshirfilm, which is the artistic director and teacher of actor-director's workshop.[2][3]

In 2014, Bashirov started the work on documentary titled Donbass knocks in our heart dedicated to separatists from the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic. The development of the film was supported by Fedor Bondarchuk who took the producer role.[4] The production of the film was later cancelled.[5]

Personal life

He is married to singer Inna Volkova (born 1964) from Kolibri. Daughter - Alexandra Maria, a son from his first marriage - Christopher.

Political views

In 2014, he illegally crossed the border of Ukraine in the area not controlled by the Ukrainian government, to support the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic separatists.[6]

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Selected filmography

Films

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Awards

  • 1998 - Film Festival Viva Cinema of Russia! In St. Petersburg, the press prize
  • 1998 - Film Festival Window to Europe in Vyborg, a special prize Guild of Film Critics
  • 1998 - Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi, the FIPRESCI prize
  • 1999 - Film Festival Literature and Cinema in Gatchina, the Grand Jury Prize for the film The Iron Heel of Oligarchy, the prize for Best Actor, Special Jury Prize [7]
  • 1999 - Alexandria International Film Festival, the top prize for best European film
  • 1999 - International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the prize Tiger Award

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