Vladimir Bortko
Vladimir Bortko | |
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Владимир Бортко | |
Member of the State Duma for Saint Petersburg | |
In office 5 October 2016 – 12 October 2021 | |
Constituency | Central St. Petersburg (No. 216) |
Member of the State Duma (Party List Seat) | |
In office 21 December 2011 – 5 October 2016 | |
Personal details | |
Born | CPRF | 7 May 1946
Alma mater | Karpenko-Kary State University of Theatre, Film and Television |
Occupation | Director, screenwriter, producer, politician |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Бортко; born 7 May 1946) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician.[1] He was a member of the State Duma between 2011 and 2021, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.
Biography
Bortko was born 7 May 1946 in Moscow. In 1969 he went to the
In 1991 he made Afghan Breakdown, a Soviet-Italian film about the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan with Michele Placido in the lead, critical of the Soviet military activity. During the troubled shooting that started in Tajikistan in 1990 one of the team members, Nikita Matrosov, was killed by Tajik ultra-nationalists following the 1990 Dushanbe riots. According to Bortko, most of their equipment was destroyed as well, the team was evacuated, and the shooting was finished in Crimea and Syria.[2]
After the turn of the century Vladimir Bortko realized two of the biggest projects in the history of Russian cinema for the television channel
Three years later followed an adaptation of the novel
In 2009, Bortko caused another big controversy, with his film adaptation of the historical novel Taras Bulba written by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. This time the criticism came from Ukraine, because while Bortko allowed the Polish actors in the film to speak Polish, the Ukrainian Cossacks had to express themselves in poor Russian.
Bortko is a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).[citation needed]
In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russian annexation of Crimea.[3]
In 2022, during the
Major projects
Film and television
- 1974 – Doctor (thesis short film)
- 1975 – Channel
- 1980 – My Father Is an Idealist
- 1984 – Without Family
- 1984 – The Blonde Around the Corner
- 1987 – Once Lied
- 1988 – Heart of a Dog
- 1991 – Afghan Breakdown
- 1998 – The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone
- 2000 – Gangsters of Saint Petersburg (TV series)
- 2002 – The Idiot (TV series)
- 2005 – The Master and Margarita(TV series)
- 2009 – Taras Bulba
- 2011 – Peter the Great: The Testament
Theatre
- 1993 – Oedipus Rex
- 2010 – Malleus Maleficarum
References
- ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ Artem Zayatc. Gastarbeiters. 10 National Films with Foreign Stars article, Film.ru online magazine, September 15, 2014 (in Russian)
- Russian Federation. Archived from the originalon 11 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ^ Costea, Alexandru, ed. (15 April 2022). "A Russian politician says in tears that the sinking of the Moskva cruiser is a "real reason for war" against Ukraine". Tylaz.
External links
- (in English) Vladimir Bortko in the Internet Movie Data Base
- (in English) Heart of a Dog in the Internet Movie Data Base
- (in English) The Idiot in the Internet Movie Data Base
- (in English) The Master and Margarita in the Internet Movie Data Base
- (in English) Taras Bulba in the Internet Movie Data Base