Mukhtar Gusengadzhiyev

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Mukhtar Magomedsharipovich Gusengadzhiyev ({{langx|ru|Мухта́р Магомедшари́пович Гусенгаджи́ев}}; born 20 May 1964, Izberbash, Dagestan ASSR, USSR) is an actor of circus, film and television. Master of Yoga.[http://www.aif.ru/society/law/v_chem_sut_dela_vokrug_aktera_muhtara_gusengadzhieva В чем суть дела актёра Мухтара Гусенгаджиева?]

Biography

Gusengadzhiyev was born as a Dargin. He studied at the Izmailovo Circus Studio (1989), the Darginsky Theater Studio (1990–1991), the Roman Theater Studio Raffaello Sanzio (1999–2000), the Cirque du Soleil acting studio (Montreal, 2003).

In 1996, he was declared the most flexible man in Europe at the International Yoga Congress in the Canary Islands. In 1998, Hollywood Broadcasting Company FOX-11 signed a contract to showcase him and record it in the Guinness Book of World Records as The World's Most Flexible Man.[https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/ros/6447/bio/ Биография Мухтара Гусенгаджиева]

He has performed on the stage of the ZUMANITY Theater of Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He has also appeared in Black Belt and Kung Fu magazines.

On 2 April 2018 Mukhtar was sentenced to 22 years of strict regime with compulsory treatment for pedophilia, the creation and storage of child pornography.{{Cite news|title=Мухтар Гусенгаджиев получил 22 года колонии за педофилию|url=https://www.gazeta.ru/culture/news/2018/04/02/n_11364566.shtml|work=Газета.Ru|accessdate=2018-04-02}}{{Cite news|title=Мухтар Гусенгаджиев, осужденный за педофилию: Всю камеру отучил курить|url=http://www.mk.ru/social/2018/04/02/akteryog-gusengadzhiev-osuzhdennyy-za-pedofiliyu-vsyu-kameru-otuchil-kurit.html|accessdate=2018-04-02|language=ru-RU}}

Filmography

  • Paradise in the Shadow of Sabel (1992) as Prince Nutsal Khan
  • Pistol with Muffler (1993) as crazy
  • Cirque du Soleil: Solstrom (2003) as lonely prisoner
  • Kulagin and Partners (2006) as Nikolay Abayev
  • My Prechistenka (2007) as Jamshet
  • Platon (2007) as Abdul
  • Yeralash (2007) as Wushu fighters
  • Tsar (2009) as episode
  • Peter the Great: The Testament (2011) as Dowd[https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/1573421/ Фильмография Мухтара Гусенгаджиева]
  • Devil's Pass (2013) as Monster
  • The Last of the Magikyans (2014) as Hamlet

Awards and honors

  • 1991 Laureate of the All-Russian Variety and Circus Festival Yalta'91
  • 1993 Winner of the international festival of arts Gran Premio'93 in Milan, Italy
  • 1995 Winner of the European Yoga Congress San Marino'95
  • 1998 Laureate of the international teleorum Sochi-Lazurnaya'98
  • 1998 Recorded in the Guinness World Record Book Los Angeles'98
  • 2002 The record holder of the Guinness Book of Russia Divo'2002
  • 2003 The record holder of the Book of Records of the CIS and Baltic Countries'2003
  • 2004 The record holder of the Association of Russian Records Lefty'2004
  • 2008 Russian Book of Records[https://www.msk.kp.ru/daily/26435.7/3306388/ Помощник обвиненного в педофилии Мухтара Гусенгаджиева: Это неправда, что он приставал к 10-летней девочке]

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