Dmitry Astrakhan

{{short description|Russian film director and actor|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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|birth_name = Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan

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|birth_place = Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Russia)

|citizenship = Russian Federation

|occupation = film director, actor

|spouse =Elena Astrakhan

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Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan ({{langx|ru|link=no|Дмитрий Хананович Астрахан}}; born March 17, 1957[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/director/ros/6633/bio/ Dmitry Astrakhan at kino-teatr.ru][https://www.film.ru/person/dmitriy-astrahan Dmitry Astrakhan at film.ru]) is a Russian film director and actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2009).{{Cite web |url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=50699&PSC=1&PT=3&Page=5 |title=Награждён указом президента РФ Дмитрия Анатольевича Медведева от 6 февраля 2009 года |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510151012/http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=50699&PSC=1&PT=3&Page=5 |archive-date=May 10, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

Biography

Dmitry Astrakhan was born in the family of Leningrad historians Hanan Markovich Astrakhan and Susanna Markovna Manevich, natives of Belarus.{{Cite web |url=http://news.tut.by/culture/147338.html |title=Дмитрий Астрахан: Самое привлекательное в сегодняшнем Голливуде — зарплата |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-date=September 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915180328/http://news.tut.by/culture/147338.html |url-status=dead }} He was the youngest, the fifth child in the family. At school I was fond of reading, math and sports. After the end of the eighth grade, he entered the Physics and Mathematics School No. 30 on Vasilievsky Island and at the same time continued to engage in classical wrestling. After graduation, he was admitted to the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University. For several years, Dmitry replaced several institutions, until he was admitted to the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, to the Musil class (graduated in 1982). As a thesis work was to stage a performance in the Alexandrinsky Theatre, however, according to Astrakhan himself, after the artistic director of the theater learned that Astrakhan was a Jew, they did not give the play.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/176/LKL.htm|title=Дмитрий Астрахан: Легко – о серьезном|publisher=lechaim.ru|accessdate=23 August 2016}}

From 1981 to 1987 he was the director of the Sverdlovsk theater of the young spectator. Then he served in the army (naval aviation). He staged performances in various theaters of Russia and abroad, trained at Tovstonogov in Leningrad.

From 1991 to 1995, he directed the Saint Petersburg Comedy Theatre.

In 2017 he became a member of the jury of 3rd Moscow Jewish Film Festival.{{Cite web |url=http://mkisrael.co.il/articles/2017/06/12/zhyuri-3-go-moskovskogo-evreyskogo-kinofestivalya-vozglavit-pavel-lungin.html |title=Жюри 3- го Московского Еврейского Кинофестиваля возглавит Павел Лунгин. МК Израиль |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917184248/https://mkisrael.co.il/articles/2017/06/12/zhyuri-3-go-moskovskogo-evreyskogo-kinofestivalya-vozglavit-pavel-lungin.html |url-status=dead }}

Filmography

=As director (selected)=

Get Thee Out (1991)
You Are My Only Love (1993)
{{ill|The Fourth Planet|ru|Четвёртая планета}} (1995)
Everything Will Be Fine! (1995)
From Hell to Hell (1997)
Waiting Hall (1998)
Crossroads (1998)
Contract with Death (1998)
Give Me Moonlight (2001)
Yellow Dwarf (2001)
Tartaren from Tarascon (2003)
All Honestly (2004)
Golden Country (2011)
Little Children (2012)
Love Without Rules (2016)

=As actor (selected)=

Everything Will Be Fine! (1995) as mathematician
From Hell to Hell (1997) as JDC employee
Vysotsky. Thank You For Being Alive[http://thr.ru/cinema/polnyj-spisok-laureatov-premii-zolotoj-orel/ Полный список лауреатов премии «Золотой орёл»][http://vm.ru/news/2014/03/16/dmitrij-astrahan-zhal-chto-mama-ne-uvidela-kakoj-ya-artist-239843.html Дмитрий Астрахан: «Жаль, что мама не увидела, какой я артист!»] (2011) as Leonid Fridman
Chagall — Malevich (2014) as Itzke, Rabbi
The End of a Beautiful Epoch (2015) as Misha Shablinsky
Goznak (2015) as fashion designer
House Arrest as Andrey Mishkin, the lawyer
What Men Talk About. Continuation (2018) as serving at the funeral