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Aleksandr Askoldov
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17 June 1932 - 21 May 2018
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Alexander Yakovlevich Askoldov was born in 1935 in Moscow. In 1955 he graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, then, in 1958, graduate school of the Literary Institute named after M. Gorky. In 1959-1960 he worked as an inspector of the theater department of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, in 1960-1964 - editor-in-chief of the film production department of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, member of the script editorial board of the Committee for Cinematography
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Alexander Yakovlevich Askoldov was born in 1935 in Moscow. In 1955 he graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, then, in 1958, graduate school of the Literary Institute named after M. Gorky. In 1959-1960 he worked as an inspector of the theater department of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, in 1960-1964 - editor-in-chief of the film production department of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, member of the script editorial board of the Committee for Cinematography of the USSR. In 1966, Alexander Askoldov graduated from the directorial department of the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors, studied with G. Tovstonogov in the directorial laboratory of concert programs. As a thesis, in 1967, according to his script, which was based on the story of V. Grossman, he staged the film “Commissioner”, where the main roles were played by Nona Mordyukov and Roland Bykov. However, the film was put "on the shelf", was almost destroyed and was released on the screen only twenty years later, in 1987. Subsequently, it was awarded a number of cinematic awards, including the Silver Bear, the FIPRESCI Prize, the prize of the International Catholic Jury, the prize of the International Evangelical Jury of the International Film Festival in Berlin. After the ban of his film, Askoldov was fired from the Gorky film studio, then left Moscow and worked as a concrete worker in Tatarstan. Later he took part in the creation of documentary films "Comrade KamAZ" (1972) and "My Fate KamAZ" (1975). In 1981-1985, he was director, artistic director of the film concert hall "Russia", acted as a director of a concert with the participation of Alla Pugacheva "Holy love to music" and the play "Testament". In recent years Askoldov teaches at film schools in Germany, Sweden, England, Italy, lectures in Russia on literature and film art. He wrote the novel Return to Jerusalem, translated into several European languages. According to this novel, Askoldov was going to shoot a film with Rolan Bykov in the title role, but the actor died, and the shooting did not take place.