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Dmitry Svetozarov - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor.

Born October 10, 1951, Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) - Soviet, then Russian film director and screenwriter.

After graduating from high school, he entered the Department of Scientific and Technical Information of the Leningrad Institute of Culture named after N.K. Krupskaya, and then transferred to the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after N.K. A.I. Herzen, who graduated in 1974. By first education Dmitry Svetozarov is a teacher (teacher of English language and literature). In his graduation year he worked at the Lenfilm studio as an assistant to the director I. Averbakh on the film “Others' Letters” (1975), then at I. Kheifits in the film “Asya” (1977). For some time he continued to engage in literary translations, but soon completely devoted himself to cinema.

In 1980 he graduated from the Higher Directing Courses (workshop of I. Kheifits, diploma work - the film "Glasses from the Sun"), after which he continued to work at Lenfilm as a director.

In 1983 Dmitry Svetozarov made a name for himself in a full-length feature film. The debut was the sports drama "Speed", which not only sharply stood out from the general row of "cinema of the era of stagnation", but also marked the position of the young director: Svetozarov was going to tackle the field of genre cinematography little studied in the USSR. The success of "Speed" at the box office allowed the director to start his next job, and in 1986 the film "Breakthrough" was released on the screens of the country - the story of a major accident in the Leningrad metro, the second disaster film in the history of Russian cinema. During the years of perestroika, Svetozarov's genre cinematography became more and more author's, uncompromising, harsh, which caused a negative reaction from the cinematographic authorities. The first social film was the drama "No Uniform" (1988). The dissatisfaction of the official cinema with Svetozarov reached its peak after the film "Dogs" (1989). The picture was innovative for its time both in form - it was the first thriller in Soviet (Russian) cinema, and in content.

In 1992, the detective "Arithmetic of Murder" won the Grand Prix of the Film Festival "Kinoshock" and the prize for Best Actor Sergei Bekhterev at the Valenciennes IFF. "The arithmetic of murder" has cemented Svetozarov's reputation as a professional who feels free within any genre. In 1992, Svetozarov moved away from genre cinema and directed the drama "Gajo".

In 2000, D. Svetozarov returned to full-length cinema and shot "Fourteen Colors of the Rainbow" - a genre mixture of thriller, drama and adventure cinema (subtitled "Russian fairy tale"). The film won an award at the Cairo Film Festival and the Best Actress Award for actress Svetlana Smirnova at the Kinotavr Film Festival.

In 2006-2007, D. Svetozarov filmed the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment".

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