Aleksandr Gorchilin
Also Known As: Aleksander Gorchilin, Alexander Gorchilin, Александр Горчилин, Aleksandr Gorchilin
Biography: Stage and film actor, video artist, director. In 2008 enrolled at the Moscow Art Theatre School on Kirill Serebrennikov’s course; since 2012 works at the Gogol Centre. Played one of the lead roles in Valeria Gai Germanika’s film “Yes and Yes”, and appeared in Serebrennnikov’s film “The Student” (2016, nomination for a NIKA Award in the category Best Supporting Actor). In 2015 debuted as director with the documentary film “#KOMUNARUSIZHITKHOROSHO”, which received a special jury mention at Dvizhenie [Movement] festival. In 2016 participated as co-author and video artist in the opera production “Iolantha. OPUS” (with Filipp Avdeev and Igor Bychkov), and released his second documentary “Russian Fairy Tales”.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Birthday: March 03, 1992
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Gender: Male
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Elephant Sandbox
Overview: In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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Mama, I'm Home
Overview: Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is alive. She begins a grueling public battle with the contractor and the authorities, demanding the return of her son. When it becomes obvious that all efforts to silence Tonya are fruitless, a strange young man arrives on her doorstep...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-02-10
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Petrov's Flu
Overview: A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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Clipmakers
Overview: A ravishing comedy about controversial post-Soviet Russia of the 90s with storylines of four friends in the world of the glam-our entertainment industry closely tangled with criminals. The movie savors the final moments of the golden age of Russian clip makers full of easy money, dolce vita and danger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-01-05
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Out of the Box
Overview: Abstraction about love and search, oblivion and rebirth. The story unfolds in a conventional space that vaguely resembles our world - one scene smoothly changes into another, and with it the characters of the characters and their relationships, music and visual images change.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-12-09
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Tchaikovsky's Wife
Overview: Antonina Milyukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.
Genres: Drama History Romance Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Zoology
Overview: Natasha is a lonely, middle-aged admin employee at the zoo who still lives at home with her mother. One day her life is turned upside down when she discovers she has grown a tail…
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-11-24
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Molodogvardeytsev 32
Overview: The story of three guys from Chelyabinsk who decided to Rob a local grocery store. During the attack, everything goes awry: an unknown creature appears in the back room of a merchant's shop...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-12-06
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Blockbuster
Overview: A wannabe model from a small Russian town robs a local bank to fund her modeling career.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-07-13
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Protest Day
Overview: A day in the life of a typical character of Russian history, "the little man": a school teacher of Russian language and literature. An intellectual and his problems at the beginning of the 21st century. A day in the life of the country which Yesenin loved. About a country that still has hope...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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Yes & Yes
Overview: Sasha is a young girl living in a block flat with her family in Moscow. Once she falls in love with Antonin, a bohemian artist and hard drinker. Their short love affair is pulling her down, to the bottom of her subconscious. Overwhelmed with beautiful and frightening visions, she starts to paint - violently, until she can stand on her feet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-06-26
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The Student
Overview: A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-04-12
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Hit
Overview: A story about two Moscow young girls one of them is trying to become an architect and other is a beginner singer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-12-11
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Icaria
Overview: 2027. A medical corporation launches a TV show to promote its revolutionary invention - the human head transplant. A group of young thrill-seekers gather on an island to play a dangerous game. The rules are simple: win or perish.The prize is priceless - immortality.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
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City Birds
Overview: Romantic stories of three friends...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-12-15
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Leto
Overview: Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-06-07
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Without Skin
Overview: Summer. During the admission to the acting school, Lisa gets acquainted with one of the entrants and leads him to the sculpture workshop of her father, where they spend several days together. In a closed space, their relationship becomes a game. Without borders, without time, without skin. An intimate depiction of a passionate, and sometimes violent, relationship between two young actors at an acting school in St Petersburg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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The Red Day
Overview: This film was conceived as a continuation of the work of Igor Grigoriev "Holidays of the Revolution", filmed in 1972. The image of the future is the most important theme of the holidays a hundred years ago. Today, in the coming “future,” we are more likely to celebrate the events of the past or the present. Each other is followed by Lenin's birthday, a rock festival, a bow day, New Year, private celebrations. All these days merge into one - “red day”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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New Year, I Love You!
Overview: Musical movie almanac of stories about the events of the past year, holiday miracles, new hopes, creativity and love.
Genres: Romance Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-01-13
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Anybody Seen My Girl?
Overview: Sergei and Kira were considered the most beautiful bohemian couple among cinema lovers of Saint Petersburg in the early 90’s. Their fantastic love affair ended with Kira leaving town, fleeing for new life, new relationship. Sergei has died shortly after. Only after a few years does Kira realize that she never stopped loving Sergei. And that she’s doomed to stay in a neverending dialogue with a dead lover.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-04
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The Chosen Ones
Overview: The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man, heroism and the ideals of our time. Conversations of outstanding figures of Russian culture with actors who have recently started their professional path and have already clearly declared themselves in art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Harmony
Overview: Sometimes you are told that the thing you believe in and that which really is does not exist or has never existed. Unemployed Roma (25 years old) is preparing for his first world championship in playing an imaginary guitar in the city of Oulu (Finland). Will the close Roma support his path to success?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-09-29
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A Historical Mistake
Overview: Mexico. 1940. The agent of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) Ramon Merkader comes to the house of Leon Trotsky. Under a long leather raincoat he hides an ice pick. He is here to kill the unsuspecting Russian revolutionary. Moscow. 2019. The modest honours pupil Yura helps his schoolmate Masha in history. They just study Merkader’s murder of Trotsky. The uninhibited Masha decides to tempt nerdy Yura. The director of studies comes into the classroom in the most intense moment. Afterwards the school principal calls in the class teacher of Masha and Yura for a talk. He considers that such an irresponsible teacher has no place at the school and is set to dismiss her. The school bell rings. As if by magic, the endings of these three stories intertwine, giving rise to a new surprising reading of the known events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-01-13
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Twice in one river
Overview: An ordinary family - Sergey, Lena and two children - are experiencing another family crisis. Love has cooled down for a long time, the couple forgot what they were striving for, and most importantly, they no longer remember why they were together. Misunderstanding and understatement in the family leads to the fact that Lena begins to suspect her faithful of virtual treason - too much time Sergey spends on the computer in the Internet chat. To return her husband, Lena goes to Chat under the guise of a 20-year-old girl. Sergei, who does not suspect that this is his wife, completely forgets about the existence of the real Lena. A virtual romance is already threatening to break up in a real family, but the case intervenes ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-08-16
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Constellations
Overview: The story of a couple entangled in string theory and their own relationships. An excursion to the quantum multiverse, where every action of the heroes, every decision they make, exists in all possible variants simultaneously.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-03-22
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#WhoCanBeHappyAndFreeInRussia?
Overview: In the summer of 2014, a group of actors of the Gogol Center (Moscow) and the State Academic Drama Theater named after Fedor Volkov (Yaroslavl), headed by Kirill Serebrennikov, went on an expedition to the Yaroslavl region. The purpose of the expedition is to prepare a play based on the poem by N.A. Nekrasov "Who is to live well in Russia". The theater studied life, read a Nekrasov poem together with residents of villages and cities, wrote down documentary monologues of people, asked each person one of the main questions of the poem and today's life: “Who should live well in Russia?” The artist of "The Seventh Studio" Alexander Gorchilin and cameraman Ksenia Sereda recorded every second of this amazing research trip.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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Gogol online: Kharms. Myr
Overview: A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-04-19
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Караokko
Overview: Karaokko in the online restaurant Oasis: Okko presents a mind-blowing karaoke with Javid Gagulov and his famous friends.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Limonov: The Ballad
Overview: A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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