Prisoner of the Mountains : Sélectionné à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs à Cannes,1996
Nominé aux Oscars et au Golden Globe du meilleur film étranger, 1996
Prix Nika du meilleur acteur pour Oleg Menchikov et Sergueï Bodrov jr, du meilleur réalisateur, meilleur film et meilleur scénario, 1996
FIP (Freedom is Paradise) : Grand prix au Festival de Montréal, 1989
Prix spécial du jury au Festival de Sorento, 1989
Prix dans le cadre du Forum du jeune cinéma au Festival de Berlin, 1990
Prix spécial au Fesival "Stalker" à Moscou, 1995
Sergey Vladimirovich Bodrov was born in Habarovsk in 1948. He graduated from the Pansovietic Institute of Cinematography (the renowned VGIK) and began a career as a journalist and writer. His first screenplay of Balamut by Vladimir Rogovoj dates from 1978. He debuted in 1984 with Sladkij sok vnutri travy shot in Kazakhstan and became one of the leading figures in perestroika-era Soviet cinema. The following year he directed Neprofessionaly, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Turin Festival. In 1989 SER (Svoboda Eto Raj) received numerous prizes at Montreal, Berlin and Sorrento. In 1996 he made Kavkazskij plennik, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1990s and worked as a screenwriter on Est-Ouest by Régis Wargnier and Somebody to Love by Alexandre Rockwell. In 2001 he directed The Quickie and the following year had a film in competition at Venice, Medvezij pozeluj (Bear’s Kiss); his son Sergey Bodrov jr played a part in the film, for the last time as he died while it was being made. Sergey Bodrov divides his working time both as a producer and co-script-writer between the USA and Kazakhstan. Bodrov’s latest film, Mongol (2007), about the legendary Genghis Khan, has been very successful with the international public and was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film.
Source : www.labiennale.org/en
