Alexander Kott: films worthy of attention

Alexander Kott is a modern Russian director. In just sixteen years of his creative career, he created about twenty works. Almost every one of them attracted the attention of both critics and ordinary viewers.

Biography

Alexander Kott was born in 1972 in Moscow. He studied at the School of Aesthetic Education. Several years he worked as a photographer, participated in the capital's exhibitions. Then he entered VGIK, Vladimir Khotinenko's studio. Alexander Kott also passed a master class of Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His first work in the cinema was the short film "Rope". A full-length film in 2001 was shot by Alexander Kott.

Films

The first serious work in the cinema of this director - the film "Two drivers drove". The action takes place in the forties. But Kott's film is not about political events of this time and not social problems. The plot shows the relationship of ordinary people. And post-war time - only a background for the events occurring in the picture of Alexander Kott.

In 2016, the director filmed Lermontov's work "The Hero of Our Time." In the film the roles were performed by the stars of the national cinema: Albert Filozov, Irina Alferova, Leonid Okunev, Sergey Nikonenko. Pechorin was played by Igor Petrenko. Grushnitsky - Yuri Kolokolnikov. The role of Faith was played by Elvira Bolgova. The picture did not make a special stir. But criticism reacted positively to this work of Cott.

A year later the film "Outsider" was created. This film has nothing to do with the famous work of Albert Camus. The protagonist, the surgeon, loses memory due to certain circumstances. As a result, he loses touch with the past, close people, work.

Alexander Kott is a director whose name today is associated with the audience with the picture "Brest Fortress". According to the generally accepted opinion, this work is the best in the filmography of the director. And some critics even hold the view that over the last quarter of a century there has been no more reliable, truthful film about the war.

One of the last films of Alexander Kott is "Insight". This drama tells about the life of a person who, losing sight, is trying to adapt to the environment. The hero of the film is on the verge of despair. He is rescued by a nurse who works in a hospital where he is being treated.

Other films of Alexander Kott

1. "Circus".
2. "I'll show you Moscow."
3. "Suspicious."
4. "A close embrace."
5. "Another side of the moon".
6. The Cloushi.
7. "The Third World War."
8. "Fir-trees-2014".
9. "Union of the writer".
10. "Debtor's shack."

"Diamond Hunters"

The premiere of this detective historical film took place in 2011. In the plot, real events are intertwined with author's fiction. The script for the film was written by Dmitry Cherkasov.

The eight-part picture begins with the robbery of Alexei Tolstoy's apartment, which occurred in 1980. During this crime, jewelry and antiques were stolen. Major Shakhov, a man incapable of compromising with his conscience, undertakes to investigate. The film also tells about the murder of Fedorovskaya. It's easy to guess that the creators under this name had in mind the actress Zoya Fedorov, whose murder was never solved.

The most interesting image in the television film of Alexander Kott is the image of Brezhnev's daughter. Galina travels around Moscow in a state of intoxication, scandals in public. But the main thing is that she is involved in the case of the theft of diamonds, which Shakhov is trying so hard to reveal. All his efforts are unsuccessful. Because the real criminal, the main organizer of the crime, is too close. Shakhov's zeal stands free, and his wife lives. He is sent for jail. He returns to a completely different country. And only then he manages to discover this complicated matter. It is worth saying that the story that formed the basis of the plot of the film Kott, and remained unsolved.