Georgi Gavrilov
Directing
Biography
In 1968-1970 he studied at the School of Arts at the Leningrad Academy of Arts, in 1976-1981 - at the acting department of the Higher Theater School. Slonova. In 1975-1976 - actor, assistant director at the Saratov Drama Theater. In 1981-1983 - actor of the Theater of Young Spectators under Adolf Shapiro (Riga Youth Theater). In 1983 he graduated from the Riga Conservatory. Jazepa Vitola, then, in 1988 - VGIK. In 1990-1991 worked with producer Tom Ladi (partner of director Coppola). Worked in the film archive at the University of Berkeley (1990), at the TRI-Te studio under Nikita Mikhalkov. In 1991-1992 - Jancharek Productions, Rome, Italy (director and screenwriter (film “Through the Eyes of Clowns” with clown Slava Polunin). In 1993-1996 - East Light Corporation, Moscow (founder and production director). Director and producer of films and numerous television projects "Discovery", MTV, HBO and TV projects for leading television channels in the USA and Russia - First and NTV. Master of the course (teacher) at the First National School of Television and Film at the Russian State University of Design and Technology. Member of the Russian Investigative Committee, Member of the Director's Guild of the Russian Investigative Committee. He was the third husband of actress Margarita Terekhova.
Known For
"Don't give up the bag and the prison," says a well–known proverb. And indeed, no one is immune from prison, including the innocent. Neither money, nor public opinion, nor the government will help. It is then that the last hope becomes a lawyer, his competent speech and knowledge of the law. The main character of our story is Trofim Petrovich Streltsov, the state Adviser of Justice of the 3rd class, a former employee of the prosecutor's office.
Petrovich
Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia.
8 ½ $
A Russian man Sergey Matveev is sent on a business trip to New York to deliver an important package to a local businessman. As soon as he arrives in a hotel, he finds himself entrapped by the FBI. They know he used to be a GRU agent and threaten to imprison him if he would not reveal the secret information regarding "the mole". But Matveev escapes right from the hotel room and finds himself on the streets of an unknown city and enters New York city subway to hide away from the FBI. On his way home, he would have to face greedy federal agents and local criminal gangs.
Spy Games: Illegal
The film takes place in 1944 in a Moldovan village that had just been liberated by the Soviet Army. A young teacher creates a school pioneer organization. He is opposed by the school principal, who is hiding a fascist agent. With the help of a young teacher and his students, police officers manage to neutralize the criminal.
My Mother Gave Birth to Me Happy...
Retired Colonel Matveev takes on an unofficial assignment to revenge his friend's death and catch one of the most dangerous terrorists who managed to escape to America during a failed operation in Chechnya.
Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt
Growing up in an orphanage, Florin is trying to find his mother Dorina, whom he has not seen for 15 years. His beloved Liza is very jealous of Florin's plans. Having met his mother, an already adult son is trying to understand the person who gave him life and abandoned him. But can a son forgive his mother, who deprived him of a happy childhood?
Everything Could Have Been Otherwise
Ex KGB agent travels to New York to help his old friend out of trouble.
Spy Games: A Private Visit
Set in the underground drug culture that has evolved among alienated Soviet youth, Georgi Gavrilov’s Confession explores the life of a 23-year-old Moscow heroin addict at several intervals over a two-year period.