Roman Romanovich Kachanov

Roman Romanovich Kachanov (Роман Романович Качанов)
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Born	Roman R. Kachanov (1967-01-17) 17 January 1967 Moscow, Soviet Union
Other names	Roman Kachnov, Jr.; Roman Kachanov (II); Roman Kachanov ML.
Occupation	Actor Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	Angelina Chernova (2007–present)

Roman Romanovich Kachanov (Russian: Рома́н Рома́нович Кача́нов; born 17 January 1967) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.

Early life and education

Roman Kachanov was born in Moscow, USSR.

In 1982-1984 he studied at the School of Working Youth Number 127, while also attending advanced director's courses as a non-degree student. From the age of 15 he worked as an assistant to the science fiction writer Kir Bulychov. In 1984 he enrolled in the faculty of script writing at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

Career

Kachanov debuted as a film director at 24 in 1991 with Don't Ask Me About a Thing. The shooting base was located in Riga, Latvia. The film was one of the last made in the USSR before its dissolution; its premiere did not take place until 1995 because of the economic difficulties in Russia.

In 1993 Kachanov's film Freak was released. Its premiere took place during the Kinotavr festival within the competitive programme.

From 1993 to 1997, Kachanov shot advertisements and music videos.

His low-budget film Maximilian was released in 1998.

Kachanov's Demobbed was successful with audiences and critics and at Russian and foreign festivals. Many phrases from the film entered the spoken language as aphorisms.[1]. It was named at 100 best Russian movies in the famous Russian magazine "Afisha".

In 2001 Kachanov released Down House, a loose adaptation of Fedor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot. It was shown both in and out of competition at festivals, and was successful like Demobbed.Down House has been included in Modern cinema and Modern Russian cinema courses at some Russian and foreign cinema schools.

Kachanov's next project, Arie was the 50-year love story of a Jewish couple, with flashbacks to the time of the Holocaust, when they were both teenagers. Production took place in Lithuania and Israel and took more than two years, being completed in 2004.

In 2005 Kachanov worked as a director on the eight-episode TV-series Vzyat Tarantinu (Stealing Tarantino). This was mostly shot in Los Angeles.

In 2006-2007 Kachanov directed Tumbler, a sports comedy about the boxing. For greater authenticity, some of the roles were played by boxers rather than actors.

Kachanov's next project, Gena Concrete, began shooting in 2008. Production was frozen in 2009 after the primary investor declared temporary insolvency; in 2012 the Federal Fund of the National Cinematography decided to support the film, and Kachanov completed production in November 2013. The film was to premiere in 2014.

Kachanov also works as a script writer.

Private life

His father was Roman A. Kachanov, a famous Russian animator. His mother, Gara Kachanova, was an engineer-economist. Kachanov's parents died in 1993, when Roman was 26 years old. Roman Kachanov married the actress Anna Buklovskaya in 1998. They have two daughters, Polina and Alexandra, but the marriage broke up. Roman remarried to the actress and model Angelina Chernova; they have two daughters, Gara and Dina.

Filmography

Film Director

1. Don't Ask Me About A Thing (1991)
2. Freak (1993)
3. Maximilian (1998)
4. Demobbed (2000)
5. Down House (2001)
6. Arie (2003)
7. Stealing Tarantino (2005)
8. Tumbler (2007)
9. Gena Concrete (2014)

Screenwriter

1. The Miracles of Technology (1986)
2. Karpusha (1988)
3. Nonsense. The story about nothing (1988)
4. Vaniusha The Newcomer (1990)
5. Vaniusha and The Space Pirate (1991)
6. Don't ask me about a thing (1991)
7. Glasha and Kikimora (1992)
8. Vaniusha and The Giant (1993)
9. Demobbed (2000)
10. Down House (2001)
11. Arie (2003)
12. Tumbler (2007)
13. Gena Concrete (2014)
14. Ding ding, don't forget the wedding ring (2014)
15. Lords of the dreams (2015)

Actor

1. The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981) — Ushan on the Street (voice actor)
2. The Destroyer of the Waves (1989) — The Passer
3. Don't ask Me about the Thing (1991) — The Patient in the Queue
4. Demobbed (2000) — The Quartermaster Lieberman
5. Gena Concrete (2014) — The Killer

Selected Awards

• 2000 — Demobbed — Golden Arie (National Award of Film-critics and the Film-press) "for the Best filmscript" [2]
• 2000 — Demobbed — Kinotavr – Prize of the Guild of Russian Film Scholars and Film Critics "White Elephant"
• 2001 — Down House — Kinotavr – Special Jury Prize "for the New cinema language search"
• 2001 — Down House — Special Jury Prize "for the unprecendented adaptation of the novel of Fedor Dostoevsky Idiot" at the Russian festival in Gatchina
• 2004 — Arie — Prize "for the Best film" at the Russian festival Amursk autumn in Blagoveshensk
• 2013 — The Scroll of Honor of Russian Ministry of Culture "for substantial contribution to the national cinematography development"
• 2013 — Demobbed — Film was included in the list of "100 main films of 1992-2013" according to the Russian cultural magazine Afisha.

International

• 2000 — Demobbed — FIPRESCI Prize: "for its humour and for the ironic look on Russian society which allows to overcome tragedies of everyday life and might open doors to the new cinema".[3]

References

External links

• Roman Kachanov (II) at the Internet Movie Database
• RusFilm-2004 Down House
• Kinokultura 2004
• Kinokultura 2006
• Avant-Garde
• Bio 2000