Pavel Kostomarov

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1975-11-22 (48 years old)

Place of Birth Moscow, USSR (Russia)

Also Known As Павел Костомаров, Па́вел Ви́кторович Костома́ров, Павел Викторович Костомаров, Pavel Viktorovich Kostomarov

Pavel Kostomarov

Biography

Pavel Viktorovich Kostomarov (Russian: Па́вел Ви́кторович Костома́ров; born November 22, 1975, Moscow) is a Russian cinematographer, feature, documentary and TV director. Winner of the Laurel Award (2004 and 2007), the White Elephant Award (2007), the Silver Bear Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievements at the Berlin International Film Festival (2010), the Golden Eagle Award (2011). In 1991, Pavel graduated from the biology class at school No. 523 in Moscow. After graduating from school, he first studied to be an ichthyologist, but his love for photography led him to the VGIK camera department, which he graduated from in 2002. While still a student , he began working with director Sergei Loznitsa on documentaries: "Way Station" (2000), "Settlement" (2001), "Portrait" (2002). Soon, at one of the European film festivals, I met Antoine Cattin, a Swiss cinematographer, director and future co-author. In 2003, on the set of "Landscape" with Loznitsa, a case brought a talkative trucker Valera to the same hotel in Okulovka. It was Kattin who insisted on making a Transformer movie out of it later. The union continued with the documentaries "Peaceful Life" (2004), "Mother" (2007), which received many festival awards (in Anapa, Yekaterinburg, Moscow; in Argentina, Poland, Finland) and awards — "Laurel", "White Elephant". For ten years, Antoine Kattin and Pavel Kostomarov filmed director Alexei German during his work on the "History of the Arkanar Massacre", which resulted in the film "Playback" in 2012. In collaboration with documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev in Rostov-on-Don, he made documentaries "I love you" (2010) and "I don't love you" (2012). Together with NTV presenter Alexey Pivovarov and documentarian Alexander Rastorguev, he created the Internet project "Term" in 2012. In December 2012, together with NTV host Alexey Pivovarov and Alexander Rastorguev, he launched a large-scale documentary project "Reality"[10]. Together with them and other co-authors: Antoine Kattin, Susanna Barangieva and Dmitry Kubasov, Pavel Kostomarov conducted casting and looked for potential heroes of the project. In addition to documentaries, Pavel continued to make feature films with Alexey Popogrebsky ("Simple Things", "How I spent this summer"), with Boris Khlebnikov (the short story "The Saving Tunnel" from the movie almanac "There is no hurry", "Until the Night Separates", "A Long Happy Life"). Shortly after February 24, 2022, he left Russia. He lives in Argentina.

Known For

Director

Bansu

as Director

2019
2019
To the Lake

as Director

2015
Stone Jungle Laws

as Director

2012
These

as Director

2012
Playback

as Director

2012
I Don't Love You

as Director

2011
I Love You

as Director

2009
Two Together

as Director

2007
The Mother

as Director

2004
Peaceful Life

as Director

2003
Transformator

as Director

Camera

2021
Rastorhuev

as Director of Photography

2015
My Friend Boris Nemtsov

as Director of Photography

2015
Concerned

as Director of Photography

2014
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

as Director of Photography

2013
The Letter

as Director of Photography

2013
A Long and Happy Life

as Director of Photography

2012
Till Night Do Us Part

as Director of Photography

2012
There's No Hurry

as Director of Photography

2012
Anton's Right Here

as Director of Photography

2011
Loafers‎

as Additional Director of Photography

2011
Boris Godunov

as Director of Photography

2010
How I Ended This Summer

as Director of Photography

2008
List of Ships

as Director of Photography

2007
Simple Things

as Director of Photography

2007
The Mother

as Director of Photography

2006
Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach

as Director of Photography

2004
Peaceful Life

as Director of Photography

2003
The Stroll

as Director of Photography

2003
Landscape

as Director of Photography

2002
Broadway. Black Sea

as Director of Photography

2002
Portrait

as Director of Photography

Editor

2012
2007
The Mother

as Editor

2004
Peaceful Life

as Editor

Producer

2018
White Mama

as Producer

2015
2012
I Don't Love You

as Producer

Actor

2021
Rastorhuev

as self

2017
vDud

as Guest

2012

Writer

Bansu

as Screenplay

2011
I Love You

as Screenplay

2007
The Mother

as Screenplay

Crew

2001
The Settlement

as Cinematography

2000
The Halt

as Cinematography