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- A graduate of Alexander Sokurov’s workshop, Kantemir Balagov is one of the most famous young Russian directors. His film Dylda won the Best Director award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. At the time of the award, the director was 27 years old.
- Actress Ingrid Olerinskaya is an example of the fact that a diploma is not necessary for successful promotion in the cinema. At the age of 29, the girl managed to play in the cult comedy of the 2010s “Inadequate People” by Roman Karimov, receiving a diploma from the Window to Europe festival for this picture, and star in almost 30 more films. At the same time, the actress has no specialized acting education.
- Theater director Yuri Butusov is the owner of five Golden Masks and one of the most beloved directors among the youth theater audience. There is a lot of drive, energy and reflection in his performances. By the way, according to his first education, Butusov is a sailor, a graduate of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute.
- Yulia Peresild became the first actress in the world to travel into space. Director Klim Shipenko visited the International Space Station with her for the filming of the film “Challenge”.
- “Brusnikintsy” is an amazing example of a theater group that has grown entirely out of a student course. The team is based on two theatrical releases of Dmitry Brusnikin’s workshop at the Moscow Art Theater School (2015 and 2019). Fame came to the actors during their studies: in their second year they staged the play “This is me too. Verbatim.” The material for the performance was the answers of people on the streets about everything in the world, which the actors asked them.