Vadim Abdrashitov
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Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (Russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов) (Jan 19, 1945--) is a Russian film director.
He was born in the Ukraine, moved all over the Soviet Union with his father's military assignments, and moved to Moscow to study nuclear physics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He developed an interest in film, and began making films in the early 1970s. Many of his films were the result of a long collaboration with the writer Aleksander Mindadze.
[edit] Awards
- USSR State Prize--1991 Sluga
- Nika Award--2003 as best director
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