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Andrey Loshak

Andrey Loshak

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Biography

Andrei Borisovich Loshak (Russia: Андрей Борисович Лошак; born November 20, 1972; Moscow) is a Russian documentary filmmaker, journalist and reporter. Loshak was born on November 20, 1972, in Moscow into the family of graphic artists Boris Loshak and Olga Uvarova. He graduated from MSU Faculty of Journalism in 1996. Loshak started working in television in 1995: in his fourth year of university he became an administrator in Leonid Parfyonov's program Namedni. Non-Political News for the Week on the NTV channel. Later he began to make small stories for this program, then became a scriptwriter and editor-in-chief of the talk show About It - the first talk show about sex in Russia. Since 2000, Loshak worked as a scriptwriter and producer of the TV series Russian Empire. From 2001 to 2004, he was a correspondent for the programs Segodnya and Strana i Mir, as well as for the updated program Namedni. From the fall of 2004 to 2009, Loshak was a regular contributor to the television show Profession - Reporter. Loshak left NTV in 2010 and became editorial director of Esquire magazine (Russia) a year later. In 2012, NTV aired Loshak's five-part investigative series Russia. Total Eclipse made in the pseudo-documentary genre. From 2013 to 2015, Andrei Loshak worked for Dozhd TV. In December 2014, he directed a 6-part documentary Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow: A special way for Dozhd. From May 2015 to April 2016 he was the editor-in-chief of the information portal Help Needed. Until November 2017, worked there as one of the columnists. In 2019, Loshak directed the documentary series Holivar. History of Runet. The series was presented in Cannes. In Russia, the series was nominated for the Laurel Branch Award as the best scientific and educational film. In December 2021, Loshak released He is the only one a documentary filmed for the anniversary of Tinkoff Bank. In February 2022, Loshak's documentary series Russian Hackers: The Beginning was released. The film focused on the birth of hacking in Russia and its impact on the world. Loshak moved to Georgia in March 2022 after the outburst of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Same year in June, he released the documentary film Breaking the Link about the rifts in Russian families that occurred after the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. On February 17, 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Loshak to the list of foreign agents. On October 14, 2023, Loshak released the documentary film Pentagon about the social problems of modern Russian society. The film portrays people living in a former dormitory that belongs to the administration of Novouzensk.

Known For

Battle of the Psychics
6.6

Battle of the Psychics (Bitva Extrasenov) is a Russian-language TNT TV show based on Britain’s Psychic Challenge. Each season starts with 8-13 participants selected for their superior psychic abilities, but tries to expose them as frauds. Tasks in the beginning of the series are relatively simple, such as revealing the contents of a sealed box or what lies behind an impenetrable screen, and progressively become more difficult. One participant judged to be worst is eliminated each week, but all participants advance to the next round if the panel is unable to come to a decision.

Battle of the Psychics

2007
The School for Scandal
5.8

A talk show

The School for Scandal

2002
Russian Hackers: The Beginning
8.0

Russian Hackers: the beginning" is the author's documentary mini series of acclaimed Russian journalist Andrei Loshak. The film investigates this worldwide phenomenon of Russian hackers, it's inception in early 90s and it's growth in 2010s. The film goes through the lives of most prominent hackers of the time, following their paths of free crime, punishment and then awareness. It's a cats mice game of hackers and authorities both in Russia and the USA at the era when nobody thought internet crime existed.

Russian Hackers: The Beginning

2022
InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet
6.9

Dashing authors, the first porn sites and the last bastards. How the Russian Internet appeared and how it changed: from complete freedom to the appearance of censorship and the law on isolation.

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

2019
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Documentary series about Russian people who became successful in other countries

Made by Russians

2015
Star Pile
5.8

A parody film about space directed by members of NOM.

Star Pile

2012
Travel From St. Petersburg to Moscow: a Special Path
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In 1790, Alexander Radishchev published the book "Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow", in which he fearlessly exposed the vices of his time: despotism, corruption, poverty and disenfranchisement of the people. For his free-thinking, the writer was sentenced to death, which, by the royal grace, was replaced by a 10-year exile to Siberia. The film crew decided to repeat Radishchev's route and see how people live today on the side of the federal highway M10 "Russia" connecting the two capitals. How has Russian life changed over the past two hundred years? Have we started to live better? Richer? Freer?

Travel From St. Petersburg to Moscow: a Special Path

2014
Chapiteau Show: Respect and Cooperation - Part 2
6.5

A father decides to make amends with his son, while Victor Tsoy 's double goes on a tour of Crimea. Sergei Loban's dilogy continued. - Respect. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! Prepare yourselves to witness a death-defying feat! A wise man, lost in the darkness, and his disciple, desperately striving for the light. They balance on the edge of the abyss while volcanic flames burn their faces. King Lear and the Star Child, their train of fate speeds through a tunnel in the mountain. Will there be light at the end of the tunnel? - Cooperation. A world premiere! The circus proudly brings to you a surprising discovery in show business! The one, the only Ersatz Star! A creature capable of destroying any competitors! Its creator will fly up to the very top of Mount Olympus and leap into the depths of the waters. Engineer Garin and the Elephant Man will either save or destroy each other! Wait and see!

Chapiteau Show: Respect and Cooperation - Part 2

2012
Age of Disagreement
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The film portrays a new generation of politically active Russians who worked and volunteered for Navalny's 2018 presidential campaign.

Age of Disagreement

2018
Age of Disagreement
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In the spring of 2017, after the release of the film by Alexei Navalny and FBK “He is not Dimon to you” about Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, many young people and schoolchildren joined the next protests. Young people have become the driving force behind Navalny's presidential campaign. It was they who actively participated in the creation of a regional network of political headquarters, subjected to pressure from the state.

Age of Disagreement

2018
Pentagon
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The “Pentagon” is called an emergency house in Novouzensk, Saratov region, Russia, without heating and sewerage. For six months, Andrei Loshak and the film crew watched people who “do not live, but survive.” The documentary series “Pentagon” is a portrait of the poorest residents of Russia, who concluded an unspoken agreement with the state: you don't touch us, and we don't touch you. But then the war began...

Pentagon

2023
Who is Berezovsky?
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"Berezovsky - who is this?" is a web series by Andrey Loshak about the controversial figure of Boris Berezovsky. The film was created in parallel with the writing of the book by Peter Aven and consists of frank interviews, memories and attempts to understand who this man Berezovsky is.

Who is Berezovsky?

2018
Age Of Disagreement. 2024
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On the eve of the 2018 presidential election, Andrey Loshak released the series "The Age of Disagreement", about young supporters of Alexei Navalny who participated in his election campaign. In the sequel to the series, filmed ahead of the next ‘elections,’ the dramatic changes in the lives of activists over the past six years are chronicled. These activists once dreamed, alongside Navalny, of a beautiful Russia of the future. The filming was almost complete when news of the politician’s death broke. The protagonists of the film are left questioning: how do you live without dreams and hope?

Age Of Disagreement. 2024

2024
Age of Disagreement
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Age of Disagreement

2018
Broken Ties
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The film Broken Ties, by independent Russian filmmaker Andrei Loshak, is an unflinching portrayal of families divided by war. It features seven different pairings, whose members speak periodically with Loshak, one-to-one, to explain their points of view. Their conversations extend over the war's first three months, during which time their opinions evidence no change. The film makes no attempt at dialogue -- on the contrary, it is a testimony to the absence of dialogue amidst an unfolding war, and an unsentimental diagnosis of the sickness of a society in which official propaganda proves stronger than even the most intimate family ties.

Broken Ties

2022
Proper Care
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The staff of the Vera Hospice Foundation has been fighting for many years to alleviate the suffering of terminally ill people, both adults and children. Much has been achieved along the way, but much more needs to be done. How to make it so that not only to live, but also to die was not excruciatingly painful?

Proper Care

2016
Process Anatomy
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In order to put an end to dissent at once, the Soviet secret services organized this show trial. Viktor Krasin and Petr Yakir were convicted of participating in subversive propaganda against the USSR. The liberal opposition was temporarily demoralized. It was forty years ago, but it seems that it will be tomorrow.

Process Anatomy

2013
Russians Are Coming
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Journalist Andrey Loshak went to the Velikoretsky procession, one of the main solemn church processions in Russia. Together with the pilgrims, he traveled almost 150 kilometers along the Velikaya River (Kirov region).

Russians Are Coming

2013
He's the Only One
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The history of the creation and formation of the innovative online bank of Central and Eastern Europe - Tinkoff. This is a story about how to create a digital bank without branches, and then turn it into a lifestyle ecosystem.

He's the Only One

2021
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In the ranking of educational institutions of the capital, the lyceum "Second School" is consistently among the top five. But the lyceum's current fame cannot be compared with the incredible popularity it enjoyed in the late 60s of the last century. The second Physics and Mathematics School was the strongest, most prestigious and famous school of that time. Today, few people remember this unique pedagogical experiment, which was not developed, like many initiatives of the thaw. But graduates who consider studying at the "Second School" one of the main events in their lives remember him. There they were taught to deal with cliches, with cliche thinking, with notching, and most importantly — to think.

The Second and Only One

2013