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Timur Bekmambetov is a Russian-Kazakh screenwriter, film producer, director, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for directing films like Night Watch and Wanted. He is also credited with pioneering Screenlife filmmaking. Timur Bekmambetov is also known for founding a production company called Baselevs.
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is а Lithuanian actress who appears predominantly in Russian films. She achieved popularity in 1994, when she won the Nika Award for Best Actress. Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė is аlso a recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Initially part of the Moscow Art Theatre, Russian director-actor Vsevolod Meyerhold is remembered for pioneering avant-garde theories of symbolism in theater. He also paved the path for biomechanics in Russian theater and created masterpieces such as The Magnificent Cuckold. He was executed, and his wife was murdered, during the Great Purge.
Anatole Litvak was a Russian-born American filmmaker. He was notable for bringing previously little-known actors to the spotlight and enabling them to win Academy Awards. French actors Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux and Swedish star Ingrid Bergman are among the ones he helped become internationally famous. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6633 Hollywood Blvd.
Fyodor Bondarchuk is a Russian film actor, director, and producer. He is also known as a TV producer and host. Bondarchuk specializes in making science fiction, war, and action films. Over the years, he has won many awards, including Golden Eagle Awards and Nika Award. Fyodor Bondarchuk is credited with founding the popular filmmaking company, Art Pictures Studio.
Oleg Vidov was a Soviet Russian American film director, producer, and actor. Apart from his film work, Vidov is also known as the co-founder of a drug and alcohol treatment program called Malibu Beach Recovery Center, which has been featured on TV shows like Intervention.
The son of Soviet actor and TV host Pyotr Evgenievich Fedorov, Pyotr Fyodorov is a popular actor in his own right. The Russian star is known for his roles in films such as The Inhabited Island and Stalingrad. He has also appeared in series such as You All Infuriate Me.
Alexander Nevsky is a Russian actor, bodybuilder, writer, and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Vlad Stepanov in the 2004 action film Moscow Heat. A member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers, Alexander Nevsky is also one of the voters for the Golden Globe Awards.
Known for her 2003 feature film, Jeremy Hardy vs. the Israeli Army, Leila Sansour, is more than an acclaimed film director. Raised in Bethlehem as a Palestinian Roman Catholic, she is the founder of a NGO called Open Bethlehem, striving to protect her city's heritage. She documented the effect of the newly-built wall through her latest film, also called Open Bethlehem.
