Aleksey Uchitel, People's Artist of the Russian Federation and artistic director of the Rock studio, began with documentary films, as did his illustrious father, documentary director Efim Yulievich. Now the feature films of the Younger Teacher are awarded prestigious prizes and watched by spectators of many countries of the world
Alexey was born in 1951 in Leningrad. From an early age he was with his father on the set, and when he grew up, he began to engage in a creative cinematic workshop at the Palace of Pioneers, where he studied photography and cinema. Therefore, from childhood he knew that he would become a director, like his father.
Thanks to the initial experience, he understood: to make a movie, you need to know all the stages in this matter. Therefore, after school I went to VGIK to study not as a director, but as a cameraman. He did, however, the second time, but still became a student at VGIK.
Movie career
After high school, Alexei works in a documentary film studio, and in 1977 his first film, "One Hundred Thousand" I ", was released." Now documentary in his biography occupies the most important place.
In 1986, he made a unique film "Rock", in which he showed footage from the life of rock musicians of those years. He shot Boris Grebenshchikov, Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Shevchuk and others. Similar films of this level about those years are gone.
The next professional work of the director is the documentary film "Bypass Channel". Here he talked about a variety of institutions that are located on both sides of the canal: cultural palaces, insane asylums, theological academy. So everything is bizarrely combined in human life.
In those years, Teacher became as famous as his father, but he decided to go further - into the niche of feature films. Moreover, all the conditions have formed for this: during the filming of the film about the ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, the main character herself dies, and documentary material is not enough. Then he completely changes the concept and shoots the feature film "Mania Giselle". The picture was awarded prestigious awards in Russia and abroad.
The next film, His Wife's Diary, received the Kinotavr Grand Prix and three Nika awards. Following this, the director gives out films one after another, which are widely recognized by viewers and critics: “Walk”, “Space as a Premonition”, “Prisoner”. The last picture caused fierce debate among critics, however, as did the film Matilda, which some zealous guardians of morality demanded to ban.
Apparently, the director’s films raise such questions that are inconvenient for those who want to embellish the story, and at the same time our reality.
