Sergei Gazarov
biography
Sergei was born in 1958 in Baku. he He studied acting under Oleg Tabakov and graduated from GITIS - The State Institute of Theatrical Art in 1980. After graduating he was invited to the Moscow State Theatre «Sovremennik» where he played many roles in plays by Shakespeare and Saltykov-Shedrin, Moliere and Ostrovsky, Olby and Vampilov, Bulgakov, Gogol, Goncharov, among others. He has worked at the Moscow Theatre-Studio under the guidance of Oleg Tabakov since its opening and since 1986 he has worked as an actor, director and manager at the theatre. In 1990 he debuted as a film director with the film «Crazy», which was awarded the Grand-Prix of The Young European Filmmakers Festival in Angers (France). In 1991 he founded a private film company «Nikita And Piotr». In 1991 he staged the play «The General Inspector» («Revizor») in Oleg Tabakov Theatre-Studio, which was awarded The Union Of Theatrical Workers' prize for the best director''s debut of the year. In 1993 he shot a TV version of the philosophical parable «Helen & The Navigator», which was announced the best TV film of the year.