
Alexandr Rastorguev
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1971-06-26
Day of Death
2018-07-31 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Rostov na Donu, USSR (Russia)
Alexandr Rastorguev
Biography
Alexander Yevgenyevich Rastorguev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Евге́ньевич Расторгу́ев; born 26 June 1971, Rostov-on-Don — died 31 July 2018, Sibut, CAR) was a Russian documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and producer. He is considered one of the main and iconic Russian documentary director. He is close in his search for the "new drama", the direction of work Theatre.doc. He collaborated with Vitaly Mansky as a screenwriter and producer.
Born in 1971 in Rostov-on-Don (USSR, Russia). He studied at the Faculty of Philology of Rostov State University. In 1999, he graduated from the State Academy of Theater Arts in St. Petersburg (1998). He worked as a director of GTRK "Don-TR". For shooting the film "Clean Thursday", the creative team of the film was dismissed by the management of "Don-TR". He worked in the St. Petersburg edition of the NTV TV channel. In 2001, he organized the Kino Studio. As a director, he co-directed the documentary films "I Love You" (2010) and "I Don't Love You" (2012) with the documentary filmmaker Pavel Kostomarov. The films were presented at several foreign film festivals (France, the Netherlands). In 2011, Alexander Rastorguev presented his film "I Love You" in the competition program of the Rotterdam Festival. In 2009, Alexander Rastorguev wrote specifically for OpenSpace.ru manifesto of the new cinema.
He was killed on July 30, 2018, along with two colleagues — Orhan Dgemal and Kirill Radchenko — in the Central African Republic. There, according to media reports, he made a film about the activities of the "Wagner Group".
Known For
Acting
(2021)
Rastorhuev
as self (archive)
(2012)
Crew
(2021)
Rastorhuev
Director of Photography
(2018)
White Mama
Producer
(2018)
Childhood, Summer and War
Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
(2018)
How Big Is the Galaxy?
Producer
(2018)
Last Day!
Director of Photography, Director
(2018)
It's Been Three Years
Director, Editor
(2018)
Electing Russia
Director, Screenplay
(2018)
National-shkolota
Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay
(2017)
I am Nobody
Director, Writer
(2017)
Semyon's Mother
Director
(2017)
Here Is The Cross For You
Director, Director of Photography
(2017)
Scar Tattoo
Director
(2017)
Everyone Was Waiting For The Arrival Of The Fuehrer
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
(2017)
I Will Dance
Director
(2016)
Deer Master
Producer
(2015)
Norilsk in the First Person
Director
(2015)
My Friend Boris Nemtsov
Producer
(2014)
The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
(2012)
These
Director of Photography
(2012)
I Don't Love You
Director, Producer, Editor
(2012)
Anton's Right Here
Director of Photography
(2011)
I Love You
Director
(2007)
Kids and Mothers
Director
(2006)
Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach
Director
(2004)
Contract
Director
(2003)
Clean Thursday
Director, Producer
(2001)
Gora
Director
(2001)
Mummies
Director
(1999)
Your Family
Director
(1999)
My Century
Director
(1998)
Homeland
Director
(1997)
Draft
Director
(1997)
Goodbye, Boys
Director