Alexander Levin: "Being a producer is an art"

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Alexander Levin is a producer with a capital letter. Since 1981, Alexander Viktorovich has been making a huge contribution to the development of the television and film industry. Its main goal is to create original projects, promote regional channels to leadership positions.

Short biography

Alexander Viktorovich Levin is one of the leading producers in Russia. Born in Moscow on February 14, 1960. From childhood, he was distinguished by non-standard thinking, had his own vision of the world, his own religious beliefs, which caused him to clash with Soviet power at the age of 20.

Studied at the Moscow Institute of Culture. He successfully graduated from the film and television department, after which he got a job first at the Soyuzreklamfilm studio, and then at Tsentrnauchfilm. Back in his university years, Levin worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Leninskoye Znamya, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Tourist, Science and Life.

Alexander Levin protects his personal life from public interest, tries to avoid frequent interviews and tricky questions aboutto his family. Unfortunately, all information about Levin's biography is scarce and few in number.

On Russian TV, Alexander Levin is considered one of the most hidden figures. Photos with family or on vacation are extremely difficult to find.

Television work

Alexander Viktorovich began his career with two studios: Tsentrnauchfilm and Soyuzreklamfilm. 10 years after graduating from the institute, together with his friend Yefim Lyubinsky, he founded the Dixi film company. In the television company for 6 years he held the position of General Director. Later, Alexander Levin began to realize himself as a producer on the NTV channel (1998–2000) and TV 6 (2000–2002). He also took part in the creation of projects for the TV channels Ren TV, RTR and ORT.

Levin's whole life is work as a producer, general director and developer of television projects. This is confirmed by the position of Deputy General Director of Channel Six in 2002, and the head of NTV until 2005, until Levin himself left his post. According to the media, the departure from the regional TV channel was associated with a series of unsuccessful projects under his leadership.

At the moment, Alexander Levin is a producer and owner of the 9th Israeli channel, a laureate of the National TEFI Award with the Voice of the People and Dolls programs, and a member of the Academy of Russian Television. Alexander has not left the post of general producer of TeleAlliance Media Holding CJSC since 2001.

Famous film projects and TV shows

Alexander Levin is the generalproducer of the TEFI television award. He has a long track record, which includes nominees for TEFI "Dolls" (an entertainment satire program) and "Voice of the People" (political talk show). Also, under the auspices of Alexander, such works as “Independent Investigation”, “Behind the Glass”, “Housing Problem”, “Galileo”, “Oh Lucky Man”, “Female Look” were released.

As statistics show, Levin produces not only political and op-ed programs, but also entertainment series (for example, "Next", "OSA", "Detectives", "District detective"). The main feature of Alexander is sensitivity in the television business. Thanks to him, we were able to watch the popular car-themed program TOP Gear.

The most unsuccessful projects that forced Alexander to leave the post of NTV producer are Hobbits, Stress, School of Scandal, First Night with Oleg Menshikov and Short Meetings.

Levin's distinguishing features

In an interview for Novaya Gazeta, Alexander Levin said that television can be compared to collecting. He also explained that this is a long process, when something more, alive, is obtained from an ordinary program. Alexander believes that the worst thing is when your offspring is not viable, and you have to get rid of it yourself.

Despite the meager information about his personal life, Levin is quite eloquent about politics and government. Repeatedly Alexander Viktorovich performed in political shows, entered into discussions with politicians anddeputies during the broadcast.

The main features of Alexander Levin are his directing and producing talent. By nature, he is a satirist, columnist and an excellent leader.

9th Israeli channel

According to Alexander, the media is the most important part of our life. Television is able to develop, educate, educate, entertain, and "zombify" more than radio, the Internet or newspapers. Therefore, Levin devoted his whole life to television and producing.

After leaving NTV, Alexander Viktorovich began organizing third-party TV projects, and in February 2013 he bought out the Russian-language Israeli Channel 9. Now this has become the main meaning of Alexander's life, under whose auspices the image and design of the channel, programs and the entire management have changed. Now Channel 9 has become one of the most popular channels in Israel.

Not every person manages to get into television (not counting talk shows and reality). Alexander Levin is an example for those who seek to plunge into the world of media, production and directing.