Alexandr Vartanov

Directing

Alexandr Vartanov

Born 1977-03-13 · Moscow, USSR (Russia)

Aleksandr Rubenovich Vartanov (born March 13, 1977, Moscow, USSR) - Russian director, screenwriter and actor. In 1995-2000 he studied at Moscow State University. MV University at the Faculty of Journalism. In parallel with his studies at Moscow State University, he entered VGIK on directing to the workshop of Gennady Poloka. Education in VGIK - unfinished. One of the first participants of “Teatr.doc”, in which he took an active part from the day of its foundation (2002) until 2006. As a director, he staged about two hundred readings and special festival events at the “Lyubimovka” and “New Drama” festivals. From Wikipedia (ru), the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

Romance For A French Horn poster
NR

A tragicomedy about a talented, but not very successful musician, Kolya, who plays the French horn and desperately tries to find a place in a well-known orchestra. He defends his right for victory with a complicated deal with his own conscience…

Romance For A French Horn

2019

Loafers‎ poster
4.8

The film is based on the early songs of Viktor Tsoi. This is a story about a young slacker, easy and fun going through life. He strumming a guitar and composing songs. Drinks with idle friends. The usual, almost domestic, history of betrayal changes everything radically. So the poet is born.

Loafers‎

2011

You I Love poster
4.3

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a love triangle.

You I Love

2004

Hidden Space poster
NR

The life of a middle-aged, lonely businessman is filled with children’s dreams about outer space. The only opportunity for him to go to stars is an MRT device, only there the hero feels zero gravity. In the attempt to find as effective a remedy for his “flights”, the man ends up in a deadlock.

Hidden Space

2021

Happiness in Other Words poster
NR

Veterans are selected for filming an “artistic provocation” dedicated to the image of an unprotected human body during a war. Only one agrees. In the pavilion, when he is painted in gold and removed, he tells what he was thinking when he went to the front in 1944, assigning to himself one extra year.

Happiness in Other Words

2009

Behind the camera

Highway M8 poster
NR

Young and talented programmers Andrey and Marina have created a unique computer program of great commercial value. By a tragic coincidence, Marina dies. To complete the program, Andrey needs an access key for Marinin. Andrey is faced with the task of unraveling the secret of Marina's key. Only one photo serves as a clue - a photo of Jose, an old friend of Andrei and uncle Marina. In search of a clue, Andrei sets off on the road along the M-8 Highway, which leads to Vologda, where Jose lives. Lena, the lover of an oligarch who wants to take over the program, becomes Andrey's fellow traveler. On their trail are several more interested persons: a former "super agent", a gangster music lover, a distraught politician, stoned bikers and many others.

Highway M8

2008

Bullet Collector poster
6.5

A haunting, violent tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is visual, nightmarish masterpiece. A shy 14-year-old boy, disconnected from home life and school, and sent to a hellish reform school, eventually lashes out on the injustices of his life.

Bullet Collector

2012

Bullet Collector poster
6.5

A haunting, violent tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is visual, nightmarish masterpiece. A shy 14-year-old boy, disconnected from home life and school, and sent to a hellish reform school, eventually lashes out on the injustices of his life.

Bullet Collector

2012

Dubrovsky poster
4.7

A modern take on the classic novel by Alexander Pushkin. Vladimir is a successful banker and a regular at trendy night clubs. Masha is a diligent graduate of a British college and a loving daughter. It looks like they have bright future ahead. However, an unexpected quarrel between two eccentric fathers forces their offspring to live through the conflict of Pushkin's novel.

Dubrovsky

2014

Blueberry Fields poster
4.7

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

Blueberry Fields

2016

Blueberry Fields poster
4.7

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

Blueberry Fields

2016

Blueberry Fields poster
4.7

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

Blueberry Fields

2016

No artwork available
6.0

Documentary montage film by Alexander Vartanov, a subjective look at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia

.RU

2018

No artwork available
6.0

Documentary montage film by Alexander Vartanov, a subjective look at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia

.RU

2018