Vladimir Grammatikov


Vladimir Alexandrovich Grammatikov is a Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He was awarded as Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995.

Biography

Vladimir Grammatikov was born on 1 June 1942 in Sverdlovsk. He graduated from the construction faculty of radio Bauman College in Moscow, and then decided to work in cinematography. Later, he got an education at the acting department Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, becoming an actor pantomime.
In 1976 he graduated from the Directing Department of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
From 1976 he became actor and director of Gorky Film Studio. He directed sketches for the newsreel Yeralash and commercials.
Since 1990, Vladimir became artistic director of the creative association Contact. He is one of the founders and artistic director of the studio Starlight. He was the President of the Starlight-fest, an international children's film festival in Artek. He is one of the founders of the Festival of Visual Arts at the Russian Children's Center Eaglet.
He was the chief director and artistic director of the children's series for preschoolers, Sesame Street in Russia.
In March 2010, Vladimir Grammatikov was appointed as creative producer for Disney in Russia.
His first full-length work as a director was a children's comedy film Mustached Nanny from 1977. The film was a box-office hit, which attracted about 53 million viewers at the time. Grammatikov found himself a niche in children's and teen films, and virtually all subsequent work of the director in the genre of family films and won prizes at Soviet and international film festivals. One of his most famous films afterwards was the international film project Mio in the Land of Faraway.

Selected filmography

Actor

Belorussian Station as GrishaIlf and Petrov Rode a Tram as UssishkinTrain Stop – Two Minutes as malingerThe Sixth as PavlikCrazy Day of Engineer Barkasov as radio center directorThe Russian Singer as Nikolai KleimanA Little Princess as antiquarian

Director

Mustached Nanny A Dog walked along the Piano Everything's the Wrong Way The Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta Mio in the Land of Faraway The Sisters Liberty

Producer