Sobachye serdtse : Ecran d'or de Varsovie, 1989
Grand prix du festival de Perugia (Italie) en 1989
Biography
Vladimir Bortko was born in Moscow. After studying geology in Kiev, he did his military service in 1965-1966. He worked as a technician in Kiev until 1969, the year when he entered the Kiev National
Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre and Arts, where he was a student of Machschenko. From 1974, he
worked as an assistant-director at the Dovzhenko Film Studio and in 1980 he became a director at
Lenfilm Studio.
He gained popularity with his third film The Blonde Around the Corner (Блондинка за углом) with
Andrei Mironov and Tatyana Dogileva. In 1988, during perestroika years, his adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s
novel, The Heart of Dog (Собачье сердце) with Yevgeny Yevstigneyev and Vladimir Tolokonnikov, achieved a great breakthrough. In 2003, he made an adaptation for the television of The Idiot by
Dostoïevski, that was acclaimed by the industry and earned the Best Actor award for Yevgeny Mironov
at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
