Director,
Writer,
Actress
Born in 1969, USSR (Russia)
 
 
Avdotya SMIRNOVA
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Авдотья СМИРНОВА
Avdotia SMIRNOVA
Also : Dounia (Дуня)
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2022 - Carpenter (Плотник) [fiction, 108 mn]
2018 - The Story of an appointment (История одного назначения) [fiction, 112 mn]
2016 - Petersburg. Only For Love (Петербург. Только по любви) [fiction, 111 mn]
2012 - Kokoko (Кококо) [fiction, 100 mn]
2011 - Two days (Два дня) [fiction, full length film]
2006 - Contact (Связь) [fiction, 80 mn]
 
Writer
2022 - Carpenter (Плотник) from Avdotya SMIRNOVA [fiction, 108 mn]
2018 - The Story of an appointment (История одного назначения) from Avdotya SMIRNOVA [fiction, 112 mn]
2016 - Petersburg. Only For Love (Петербург. Только по любви) from Oxana BYCHKOVA , Aksinya GOG , Natalia KUDRYASHOVA , Renata LITVINOVA , Natalia NAZAROVA , Anna PARMAS , Avdotya SMIRNOVA [fiction, 111 mn]
2012 - Kokoko (Кококо) from Avdotya SMIRNOVA [fiction, 100 mn]
2011 - Two days (Два дня) from Avdotya SMIRNOVA [fiction, full length film]
2007 - Gloss / Gloss : The Director's Cut (Глянец) from Andrey KONCHALOVSKY [fiction, 117 mn]
2006 - Contact (Связь) from Avdotya SMIRNOVA [fiction, 80 mn]
2003 - The Stroll / The Walk (Прогулка) from Aleksey UCHITEL [fiction, 90 mn]
2000 - His Wife's Diary (Дневник его жены) from Aleksey UCHITEL [fiction, 120 mn]
1999 - 8 1/2 dollarov / Vosem s polovinoy dollarov (8 1/2 долларов / Восемь с половиной долларов) from Grigori KONSTANTINOPOLSKY [fiction, 98 mn]
1995 - Mania of Giselle (Мания Жизели) from Aleksey UCHITEL [fiction, 86 mn]
1993 - Batterflyay (Баттерфляй) from Aleksey UCHITEL [fiction, 54 mn]
1992 - Posledniy geroy (Последний герой) from Aleksey UCHITEL [documentary, 64 mn]
 
Actress
2012 - Till Night Do Us Part (Пока ночь не разлучит) from Boris KHLEBNIKOV [fiction, 70 mn]
1990 - Aquarium fish of this world (Аквариумные рыбы этого мира) from Igor ALEINIKOV , Gleb ALEINIKOV [fiction, 59 mn]
1990 - Lessons At the End of Spring (Уроки в конце весны) from Oleg KAVUN [fiction, 77 mn]

Other films
2009 - Оптический обман (эпизод ТВ-сериала «Черчилль») / Optical Deceit (episode of the television serial “Churchill”)
2008 - Вокзал (новелла в киноальманахе «9 Мая. Личное отношение-2008») / Station (novella in the film-almanac “9 May. Personal Attitude 2008”)
 
Site : IMDb

Author :

Awards :
1997 Deuxième prix au concours des scénarios The Harley-Merrill International Screening Competition aux USA pour le film Le Journal de sa femme.
Vertinskiy :
Best Serial, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2022
The Story of an appointment :
Best Screenplay, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2019
Best directing, Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2019
Best Screenplay, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2019
Best Screenplay, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2018
Best Screenplay, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2018
Audience Award, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2018
Kokoko :
Prize Cine-Club Federation of Russia, Russian programme, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2012
Best Screenplay, Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2012
Best Screenplay, Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
Audience Award, Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
Press award, Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
Best Screenplay, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012
Two days :
Audience Award, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2011
Audience Award, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2011
Contact :
Best first film, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006

Biography
Script writer. Born in Moscow on 28 June 1969. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Worked as journalist for "Kommersant" newspaper, then as book reviewer for the magazine "Afisha"; writes for film journals (magazine "Film Art", etc.). Presenter (with Tatiana Tolstaya) of the programme "School of Scandal" (channel "Kultura", NTV). Author of scripts for documentary films: "Butterfly", "The Last Hero", and for fiction films: "Giselle's Mania" (1995), "His Wife's Diary" (2000; second prize in the scriptwriters' competition of "The Harley-Merrill International Screening Competition", USA), "The Stroll" (2003) all directed by Alexei Uchitel, with whom she has worked since 1995. "Relations" is her directorial debut.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru

At the end of April 2022, Advotia Smirnova and her husband Anatoly Chubais left Russia and moved to Spain.
Source: puteshestvuy.com/kto-uehal-iz-rossii/
 

Commentaries and bibliography
- Avdot’ia Smirnova: The Carpenter (Plotnik, 2022) Alyssa DeBLASIO, 2023, Kinokultura
- Авдотья и плотник. Надо ли отменять произведения уехавших из страны деятелей культуры [Avdotia [Smirnova] Charpentier. Faut-il exclure les oeuvres de ceux qui ont quitté le pays] , Leonid PAVLYUCHIK, 2022, trud.ru
- Заяц над бездной: Плотник Авдотьи Смирновой [Charpentier, 2022, de Avdotia SMIRNOVA] Ольга КРЮКОВА, 2022, kinoart.ru
- Заяц над бездной: Плотник Авдотьи Смирновой [Critique du film Charpentier (Плотник), 2022, de Avdotia SMIRNOVA] Ольга КРЮКОВА, 2022, kinoart.ru
- RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films sur Saint-Pétersbourg que vous devez absolument voir Elena BOBROVA, 2020, RUSSIA BEYOND
- RUSSIA BEYOND Les cinq meilleurs films russes à regarder sur Netflix [Dans quels pays?] Alexandre NETCHAÏEV, 2020, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Only for Love (Peterburg. Tol'ko po liubvi, 2016) Olga MUKHORTOVA, 2017, Kinokultura
- Avdot’ia Smirnova: Kokoko (2012) , Lena DOUBIVKO, 2013, kinokultura.com
- Avdot’ia Smirnova : Two Days (2 dnia, 2011) , Stephen NORRIS, 2012, kinokultura.com
- Идеологическая комедия Два дня, режиссер Авдотья Смирнова , Anjelika ARTYUKH, 2011, Искусство кино, 8
- Номенклатурный ромком. Два дня , Andrey PLAKHOV, 2011, seance.ru
- La Russie de 2011 au miroir de son cinéma , Sylvie BRAIBANT, 2011, TV5
- Avdot'ia Smirnova : Relations (Sviaz', 2006) , Lucy FISHER, 2007, kinokultura.com
 
 

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