Russian director, screenwriter and sometimes actor.
Pyotr Buslov was born in Khabarovsk a city in the Russian Far East. Forgoing a promising wrestling career, he decided to pursue a future in film. Without being admitted to the film school full time, he joined Karen Shakhnazarov’s directorial workshop at VGIK. In his third year of studies, after directing “The Hard Work of The Old Moirae”, he was admitted to the program full time.
Buslov’s graduating project, “Bimmer” ( “Буммер”), released in 2003, brought him recognition among his peers,collecting awards at several domestic film festivals. It also brought considerable commercial success, becoming a blockbuster nationwide. Following the success of his first film Buslov directed several commercials and promotional reels. He also starred in Elija Khotinenko’s films “Odyssey. 1989” (2003) and “Call Me Genie” (2004).
His next film, “Bimmer. Part Two” (“Heaven on Earth”), was released in March 2006.
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Aleksei German Jr. was born in 1976 in a cinematic family: his father, Aleksei German, is one of the most renowned Russian film directors and his mother is a screenwriter. German-Jr. studied at the St-Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Art (SPGATI). In 1996 he was accepted into the Film Directing Department at the State Institute for Filmmaking (VGIK) in Moscow, where he worked in the workshops of Sergei Solov’ev and Valerii Rubinchik. He graduated VGIK in 2001 and his diploma film, Little Fools, was screened at several major film festivals. German’s three feature films won multiple awards at Russian and international film festivals, including the Amnesty International Award for The Last Train at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. —rusfilm.pitt.edu
