Aleksandr abdulov biography books

All All. Sign In. Aleksandr Gavrilovich Abdulov. Aleksandr Abdulov, one of Russian cinema's best known sex symbols and was one of the most celebrated Russian film stars. His father, named Gavriil Abdulov was a wounded veteran of the Second World War decorated for his courage at the front-line tank battles against the Nazis. Abdulov's mother was a make-up artist at several Russian theatres.

Young Abdulov grew up in Uzbekistan, where he finished high school and also became the Master of Sports in fencing. He was admitted to a local college where he had the chance of becoming a sports coach. He could not go back to Uzbekistan so he stayed in various gloomy dorms in Moscow, working hard labor jobs at railway stations just to survive.

Aleksandr Abdulov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, film director.

He then studied acting at GITIS, made very little money working as an extra, and still was a hard laborer in order to pay for his living in Moscow. Abdulov revealed the full range of his talent in popular films An Ordinary Miracle and S lyubimymi ne rasstavaytes Millions of his pictures has been decorating homes and student dorms in every big and small town of the former Soviet Union.

The public loved Abdulov - the actor and the man - for his sincere talent and for his devotion to his ideas. He played his best roles under the direction of Mark Zakharov in such films as 'Obyknovennoe Chudo , 'Tot samyi Munchgausen , 'Formula Lyubvi' , and Ubit drakona This ensemble of fine actors and directors evolved into a special and uniquely Russian milieu, where Abdulov's multifaceted talent was supported by other actors.

His range and nuanced acting reached a new level in the films made in the late s and s. Abdulov created powerful roles in a tandem with the masterful Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy in the innovative film 'Geniy' by director Viktor Sergeev.