Russian film director and screenwriter Alexander Mitta was born 28 March 1933 in Moscow. Alexander Mitta's career as film director and screenwriter spans from the 1960s until the 2010s.
He studied engineering in 1955, then worked as a cartoonist in art and magazines. In 1960 Mitta graduated at the film directing faculty of the VGIK.
Striving to expand the genre borders Mitta turned to the Western genre of catastrophe movie adapted to soviet reality. The experiment turned to be successful: millions of viewers saw the film
Air Crew (1980).
In 1983 he directed his landmark film
The Story of the Voyages (1983) starring
Andrey Mironov and
Tatyana Aksyuta.
In 1991 he shot Soviet-British political drama
Lost in Siberia (1991) starring
Anthony Andrews. The film was nominated as the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Golden Globe Awards.
In 2013 he shot last film
Chagall-Malevich (2014) about the world of
Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. His most famous movie of that time is the TV-Series
Granitsa. Tayozhnyy roman (2000).
Chagall-Malevich(2014)
Raskalyonnaya subbota(2002)
Tayozhnyy roman(2001)
Granitsa. Tayozhnyy roman(2000)
Lost in Siberia(1991)
Kholodnoe solntse(2008)
Dom Solntsa(2010)as Posetitel vystavki Koreytsa
Trial by Fire(1998)as Kapitän II
July Rain(1967)as Vladik
Baby Carriage(2007)
Muzhskoye vospitaniye(1983)
Besstrashnyy ataman(1973)
Miss Gulag(2007)
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story(2021)as Self
Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?(2001)as Self - Contestant
Upryamets Khutsiev(2015)as Self
Leonid Nekhoroshev. Zhizn' v kino(2014)as Self
Evening Urgant(2012)as Self - Guest
Vremya(1968)as Self - Film director