Director Alexei Popogrebsky: biography, career, films

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Who is Alexey Popogrebsky? What famous films are on the account of the director? How did his career in domestic cinema develop? Everything in order further in our material.

Early years

Alexey Popogrebsky was born on August 7, 1972. The future director was born in the family of a famous screenwriter. From an early age, the boy was fond of high art, but he planned to devote his life to psychology. To do this, after graduating from school, he entered the corresponding faculty at Moscow State University. Here for several years he practiced psychology, studied foreign languages and worked as a translator.

Debut film work

Aleksey Popogrebsky started making films in 1997. The first work of the director was the short film "Mimokhod". The author was engaged in the creation of the tape in collaboration with an old friend Boris Khlebnikov. The film, which was only 20 minutes long, was shot in the format of a city walk. The footage from the tape was a cut of fragments filmed in separate corners of the capital.

Later, Alexey Popogrebsky repeatedly noted that the tape"Mimokhod" was of great importance in his career, because during the filming, directors without experience made the most critical mistakes that VGIK graduates can only make. However, the creators of the short film did not despair and made the right conclusions.

In 2000 another work by Popogrebsky and Khlebnikov followed. The second film of novice directors was the project "Cunning Frog". The picture is more mature. And this is not surprising, because the eminent actor Tomas Mockus was invited to play the main role here, and the famous cinematographer Sandor Berkeshi was responsible for the quality of the picture.

First feature film

In 2003, Alexei Popogrebsky presented his first full-length film en titled "Koktebel" to a wide audience. As before, the operator was Sandor Berkeshi. Actors such as Vladimir Kucherenko, Agrippina Steklova, Igor Chernevich, as well as the Latvian actor Gleb Puskepalis were invited to play the leading roles.

The film "Koktebel" tells about the adventures of a man and his son, who get to the Crimea on passing cars. During the trip, they meet many extraordinary personalities who leave their mark on the souls of the heroes. It is worth noting that the debut feature film by Alexei Popogrebsky had a huge resonance. The film managed to collect many prestigious awards at major film forums. One of the main prizes was the prize of the international festival "Silver George".

Director's Finest Hour

To truly become famous for AlexeiPopogrebsky succeeded after working on the dramatic film "Simple Things". The main character of the tape is a simple doctor named Sergei, who has to cope not only with work, but also put on his own shoulders a whole host of everyday problems. The character of the film is offered a good part-time job, namely, to give injections of painkillers to a hopelessly ill, once famous actor. Soon the suffering artist asks Sergei for euthanasia.

Alexey Popogrebsky's film "Simple Things" won a number of awards. The author of the picture was awarded the Grand Prix of the Kinotavr Film Festival. Moreover, the creator of the tape received a prize in the Best Director nomination.

Aleksey Popogrebsky - filmography

Currently, the famous Russian director has worked on the following films:

• "Court Column";
• "Simple Things";
• "How I spent this summer";
• "Mimokhod";
• Koktebel;
• "Cunning Frog".

It is noteworthy that Popogrebsky, who lives in Moscow, refuses to shoot his films in the capital. The director explains this approach by the need to break away from the bored, boring reality. Therefore, it is not surprising that work on all his films, in addition to the debut, was carried out in other cities.