Alexandr Rastorguev

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1971-06-26

Deathday 2018-07-31 (47 years old)

Place of Birth Rostov na Donu, USSR (Russia)

Also Known As Александр Расторгуев, Alexander Rastorguev, Aleksandr Rastorguev, Aleksander Rastorguev

Alexandr Rastorguev

Biography

Alexander Yevgenyevich Rastorguev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Евге́ньевич Расторгу́ев; born 26 June 1971, Rostov-on-Don — died 31 July 2018, Sibut, CAR) was a Russian documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and producer. He is considered one of the main and iconic Russian documentary director. He is close in his search for the "new drama", the direction of work Theatre.doc. He collaborated with Vitaly Mansky as a screenwriter and producer. Born in 1971 in Rostov-on-Don (USSR, Russia). He studied at the Faculty of Philology of Rostov State University. In 1999, he graduated from the State Academy of Theater Arts in St. Petersburg (1998). He worked as a director of GTRK "Don-TR". For shooting the film "Clean Thursday", the creative team of the film was dismissed by the management of "Don-TR". He worked in the St. Petersburg edition of the NTV TV channel. In 2001, he organized the Kino Studio. As a director, he co-directed the documentary films "I Love You" (2010) and "I Don't Love You" (2012) with the documentary filmmaker Pavel Kostomarov. The films were presented at several foreign film festivals (France, the Netherlands). In 2011, Alexander Rastorguev presented his film "I Love You" in the competition program of the Rotterdam Festival. In 2009, Alexander Rastorguev wrote specifically for OpenSpace.ru manifesto of the new cinema. He was killed on July 30, 2018, along with two colleagues — Orhan Dgemal and Kirill Radchenko — in the Central African Republic. There, according to media reports, he made a film about the activities of the "Wagner Group".

Known For

Director

2018
Last Day!

as Director

2018
2018
National-shkolota

as Director

2018
Electing Russia

as Director

2017
I am Nobody

as Director

2017
Semyon's Mother

as Director

2017
Scar Tattoo

as Director

2017
I Will Dance

as Director

2015
Stone Jungle Laws

as Director

2012
I Don't Love You

as Director

2011
I Love You

as Director

2007
Kids and Mothers

as Director

2004
Contract

as Director

2003
Clean Thursday

as Director

2001
Gora

as Director

2001
Mummies

as Director

1999
Your Family

as Director

1999
My Century

as Director

1998
Homeland

as Director

1997
Goodbye, Boys

as Director

1997
Draft

as Director

Camera

2021
Rastorhuev

as Director of Photography

2018
Childhood, Summer and War

as Director of Photography

2018
Last Day!

as Director of Photography

2018
National-shkolota

as Director of Photography

2017
Here Is The Cross For You

as Director of Photography

2014
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story

as Director of Photography

2012
These

as Director of Photography

2012
Anton's Right Here

as Director of Photography

Producer

2018
White Mama

as Producer

2018
2016
Deer Master

as Producer

2015
2012
I Don't Love You

as Producer

2003
Clean Thursday

as Producer

Writer

2018
2018
National-shkolota

as Screenplay

2018
Electing Russia

as Screenplay

2017
I am Nobody

as Writer

Editor

Actor

2021
Rastorhuev

as self (archive)

2012