Alexey Fedorchenko
Biography
Aleksey Stanislavovich Fedorchenko (Russian: Алексе́й Станисла́вович Федо́рченко; born September 29, 1966; Sol-Iletsk) is a Russian film and documentary director, who won accolades at the Venice Film Festival with the mockumentary First on the Moon (2005) and later with Silent Souls (2010), a magical realist tale about the long-extinct Finnic tribe of Merya. His works have been awarded prizes at the largest national and international festivals, such as Venice and Rome IFF, IFF Black Nights, and Kinotavr. Fedorchenko's film Anna's War won the Russian Golden Eagle Award in the Best Film category. He also won the award for Best Director. region, in 1966. Graduated from the Engineering and Economics Faculty of the Ural Polytechnic (1988); from script faculty of the Film Institute VGIK (2000, class of V. Chernykh, L. Kozhinova and Yu. Rogozin). Since 1990 has worked at the Sverdlovsk film studio, since 2005 he is producer and director of the film company “29 February”. Debuted in feature films in 2005 with “First on the Moon”.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Mitrofan Aksenov is a genius who anticipated the most important and influential scientific discovery of the twentieth century — the theory of relativity.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The film is about the relations between the inhabitants of Russia and the Caucasus, and about their influence on each other. Young Georgian Georgi Iobadze tells the audience the story of the Vainakhs (a group of peoples of the North Caucasus and Georgia) in the period from 1813 to 1913.