Sergei Bodrov

Directing

Sergei Bodrov

Born 1948-06-28 · Khabarovsk, RSFSR, USSR

Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov (born June 28, 1948) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Bodrov was born in Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR (now Russia). His son, actor Sergei Bodrov, Jr. was killed in an avalanche in the mountains of the North Caucasus on September 20, 2002 while shooting his film which was tentatively titled The Messenger. Bodrov's grandmother was ethnic Buryat which influenced his decision to film the movie Mongol. Bodrov currently has an apartment in Los Angeles and a ranch in Arizona. He is married to American film consultant Carolyn Cavallaro.

Acting credits

Knight of Cups poster
5.7

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

Knight of Cups

2015

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick poster
7.0

Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement of some of the most representative figures of the American culture itself. This medley of voices has given origin to a journey throughout the whole United States, from California to Colorado, from Virginia to Minnesota, passing by New York and Los Angeles. Every stop represents an ideal set in which all the characters of the films come to life once again giving place to a growing flow of memories. The narrative dimension of Malick's cinema resounds and opens a new horizon on the visible contradictions of the American culture; no easy judgement but a critical consciousness is what emerges from this coral speech, together with a definite need: the necessity of art. A need that Terrence Malick was able to satisfy.

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

2002

BATU: Historical Detective poster
NR

Genghis Khan's favorite grandson, Batu investigates the mystery of his father's death. Uncovering a conspiracy in his own family, he creates a powerful empire to administer justice against the culprits.

BATU: Historical Detective

The Stray White and the Speckled poster
5.5

In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys amuse themselves with bloody fights on trashy vacant plots… One of the most vivid staples of the postwar childhood were pigeons. They could be bought, sold or stolen. One day a beautiful white dove appeared over the town. Risking his life, Ivan caught the White. And immediately became the target of the "pigeon" mafia…

The Stray White and the Speckled

1986

Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down poster
5.0

His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"

Alexey Balabanov. Find Your Own and Calm Down

2020

Behind the camera

Seventh Son poster
5.5

John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?

Seventh Son

2014

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan poster
6.8

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

2007

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan poster
6.8

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

2007

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan poster
6.8

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

2007

Kalashnikov AK-47 poster
7.4

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

Kalashnikov AK-47

2020

Kalashnikov AK-47 poster
7.4

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.

Kalashnikov AK-47

2020

I Wanted to See Angels poster
6.6

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.

I Wanted to See Angels

1992

I Wanted to See Angels poster
6.6

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.

I Wanted to See Angels

1992

Nomad: The Warrior poster
5.2

The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.

Nomad: The Warrior

2005

Mustafa Shokai poster
NR

A bipoic about Mustafa Shokai, a distinguished Kazakh politican of 1920's.

Mustafa Shokai

2008

Paradise Club poster
2.9

During the height of the social revolution, a young dancer searches for salvation when she chooses to leave paradise.

Paradise Club

2017

Running Free poster
6.2

The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.

Running Free

1999

Somebody to Love poster
5.2

Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.

Somebody to Love

1994

Non-Professionals poster
5.8

A band of young musicians is looking for fees across the steppe in an ramshackle old bus. During their tour, starving, they kill a cow but they don't know what to do with it. They will also bring happiness in an old people's home in return for food.

Non-Professionals

1985

Non-Professionals poster
5.8

A band of young musicians is looking for fees across the steppe in an ramshackle old bus. During their tour, starving, they kill a cow but they don't know what to do with it. They will also bring happiness in an old people's home in return for food.

Non-Professionals

1985

The Bird of Paradise poster
NR

It is about a young rural beauty's attempt to break free from the traditional constraints of her predetermined female destiny.

The Bird of Paradise

1991

The Long Milky Way poster
NR

1944. To provide aid to the famine-stricken regions of liberated Donbass, it was decided to drive cattle from Kazakhstan. This story tells how a group of livestock handlers took upon themselves a human and civic duty to undertake a long and extremely difficult journey along the roads of a war that was not yet fully over.

The Long Milky Way

1983

The Son poster
NR

The war years. Young Batyr takes on the responsibility of caring for his mother and newborn sister. The boy's father, a renowned dutar player in the village, has been killed in action. Batyr decides to master the complex art of dutar playing. However, with the ongoing war, there is no time for music schools in the rear. Despite the challenges, the determined young boy conquers the instrument, and his mother is overjoyed to see him grow into a responsible adult.

The Son

1989

42 One Dream Rush poster
6.0

An omnibus project bringing together acclaimed directors from around the world, each contributing a 42-second short inspired by a dream. Produced by 42 Below vodka, the collection blends surreal, poetic, and experimental visions into a mosaic of oneiric cinema.

42 One Dream Rush

2010

East/West poster
6.4

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

East/West

1999

Bear's Kiss poster
5.0

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

Bear's Kiss

2002

Bear's Kiss poster
5.0

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

Bear's Kiss

2002

Bear's Kiss poster
5.0

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

Bear's Kiss

2002

The Quickie poster
4.7

A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.

The Quickie

2001