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Vladimir Bortko - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born May 7, 1946 in the family of a theater director and actress. He grew up in the family of the Ukrainian Soviet playwright Alexander Korneichuk (who was his stepfather). After studying at the Kiev Geological Prospecting College, he served in the army in 1965-1966, then for three years he worked as an electrical technician at Voenproekt in Kiev.
In 1969 he entered the Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Art named after I.K. Karpenko-Kary, where he studied in the workshop of R.R.Efimenko and V.L. Chubasov. After graduating from the institute in 1974, he worked as an assistant director at the A. Dovzhenko film studio, and then as a production director and in 1975 directed his first film "Channel" .
In 1980 he became a production director at the Lenfilm film studio, where he directed the film The Commission of Inquiry, commemorated by the acting work of Oleg Efremov, Irina Miroshnichenko, Yevgeny Lebedev.
Fame came to Vladimir Bortko after the comedy film "The Blonde Around the Corner" written by Alexander Chervinsky, in which the director invited Andrei Mironov and Tatiana Dogileva to play the main roles.
The adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's story "Heart of a Dog" brought recognition to the world cinema community to Vladimir Bortko - the film was awarded the Grand Prix of the Perugia Film Festival. The role of Professor Philip Filippovich Preobrazhensky became one of the best works of Evgeny Evstigneev, and the role of Sharikov was opened for the cinema by Vladimir Tolokonnikov.
In 1991, the war drama Afghan Break, starring the Italian actor Michele Placido, was released. After the 1992 comedy Good luck, gentlemen! and before the drama “The Circus Burned Down and the Clowns Scattered”, staged in 1998, Bortko, under the pseudonym Yan Khudokormov, shot several initial episodes of the television series Streets of Broken Lanterns.
In the 2000s, he shot several television series ("Gangster Petersburg", "The Idiot" and "The Master and Margarita"), which attracted a large TV audience and were awarded numerous prizes.
On April 2, 2009 the premiere of the feature film "Taras Bulba" with Ukrainian actor Bogdan Stupka in the title role took place. The film aroused significant audience interest and heated controversy in the media in Russia and Ukraine. From April 2 to May 9, 3.74 million people watched the film in CIS cinemas (excluding Ukrainian cinemas) .
Full member of the Russian Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2003), Academician of TEFI (2004), laureate of all-Union, All-Russian and international films and television festivals. General Director of ZAO Studio 2-B-2 Entertainment (since 1991).
Lives in St. Petersburg.
