Director,
Writer
Born 1959, USSR
 
 
Aleksandr VELEDINSKY
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Александр ВЕЛЕДИНСКИЙ
Aleksandr VELEDINSKI
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2023 - 1993 (1993) [fiction, 144 mn]
2018 - In the port of Cape Town (В Кейптаунском порту) [fiction, 110 mn]
2013 - The Geographer Has Drunk Away The Globe (Географ глобус пропил) [fiction, 120 mn]
2011 - Experiment 5ive - Portrait (Эксперимент 5ive - Портрет) [fiction, 6 mn]
2005 - Alive (Живой) [fiction, 96 mn]
2004 - Ruskoe (Русское) [fiction, 120 mn]
2002 - Zakon (Закон) [fiction, 1196 mn]
2001 - Just the Two of Us (Ты да я, да мы с тобой) [fiction, 28 mn]
1994 - Natural (Натурал) [short film]
1994 - Anfan Terribl (Анфан Террибль E.T.)
 
Writer
2023 - 1993 (1993) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 144 mn]
2018 - In the port of Cape Town (В Кейптаунском порту) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 110 mn]
2013 - The Geographer Has Drunk Away The Globe (Географ глобус пропил) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 120 mn]
2011 - Experiment 5ive - Portrait (Эксперимент 5ive - Портрет) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 6 mn]
2005 - Alive (Живой) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 96 mn]
2004 - Ruskoe (Русское) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 120 mn]
2002 - Zakon (Закон) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 1196 mn]
2002 - Brigade (Бригада) from Aleksey SIDOROV [fiction, 750 mn]
2001 - Just the Two of Us (Ты да я, да мы с тобой) from Aleksandr VELEDINSKY [fiction, 28 mn]
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev

Awards :
1993 :
Best directing, Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2024
Best feature film, Prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Historians of Russia, Moscow (Russia), 2023
Best directing, Prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Historians of Russia, Moscow (Russia), 2023
The Geographer Has Drunk Away The Globe :
First prize, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Prize of Film Distributor's Jury, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
First prize, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2013
Best film, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2013
Best directing, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2013
Alive :
Best Screenplay, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best Screenplay, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2006
Best directing, International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2006
Best Screenplay, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2006
Ruskoe :
Special Jury prize, Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2005
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival ''A Window to Europe'', Vyborg (Russia), 2004
Just the Two of Us :
Prix du meilleur court métrage au Festival Kinoshock à Anapa, 2001
Prix du meilleur court métrage de fiction au Festival Man to Man à Saint-Pétersbourg, 2002

Biography
Director and script-writer. Born on 27 July 1959, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). Graduated from the Gorky Polytechnic (1981), and the Directorsí section of the Higher Courses for Script-writers and Directors (1995, course of Alexander Proshkin and Valery Priyomykhov); diploma work ìJust the Two of Usî (short, 2001) participated in the programme ìA Certain Viewî (Un Certain Regard) at the IFF in Cannes, and received prizes at international and national film festivals. Co-author of the script of some of the most popular television serials, The Truckers, The Brigade, The Law.
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Commentaries
- Aleksandr Veledinskii: 1993 (2023) Alyssa DeBLASIO, 2024, Kinokultura
- Лучшие российские фильмы 2023 года [Meilleurs films russes de l'année 2023] , Leonid PAVLYUCHIK, 2023, trud.ru
- Сергей Шаргунов: Не надо отворачиваться от своих трагедий [A propos du film 1993, 2023, de Aleksandr VELEDINSKI] Павел БАСИНСКИЙ, 2023, rg.ru
- Обитель: как публика и критики приняли экранизацию Прилепина? [Comment le film L’Archipel des Solovki, 2020, Aleksandr VELEDINSKI, a été accueilli par le public] 2021, dzen.ru
- Sept films russes sur la survie dans l’enfer du goulag Alexandra GOUZEVA, 2021, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Aleksandr Veledinskii: In the Port of Cape Town (V Keiptaunskom portu, Russia, 2019) , Andrei ROGATCHEVSKI, 2020, Kinokultura
- «В Кейптаунском порту»: Многоходовочка, как в море лодочка Лидия МАСЛОВА, 2019, seance.ru
- Two Decades of Post-Soviet Cinema : Taking Stock of Our Stocktaking , Seth GRAHAM, 2008, kinokultura.com
- Aleksandr Veledinskii : Alive (Zhivoi, 2006) , Yelena MONASTIREVA-ANSDELL, 2007, kinokultura.com
- Жар нежных , Lidia MASLOVA, 2006, seance.ru
- Живой , Dmitry BYKOV, , Maksim CHERTANOV, , Igor PORUBLEV, 2006, Сеанс
- Aleksandr Veledinskii, Russian [Russkoe] (2004) , Anthony ANEMONE, 2005, kinokultura.com