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Alexander Adabashyan

Born
Aug 10, 1945 · Age 81
Place of birth
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Gender
Male
Movie credits
50
TV credits
14
Directing credits
3
Also known as (9)
  • Aleksandr Adabashyan
  • Aleksandr Adabash'jan
  • A.Adabashyan
  • Alexandre Adabachian
  • Alexandre Adabascian
  • A. Adabashyan
  • Alexandr Adabashyan
  • Aleksander Adabashyan
  • А. Адабашьян

Biography

Actor, writer, designer and director Aleksandr Artyomovich Adabashyan was born in Moscow in 1945 the same year as his friend and steady collaborator Nikita Mikhalkov. The two men’s varied pairings began in 1974 when Adabashyan production designed Mikhalkov’s feature debut “At Home Among Strangers, Strangers at Home”, a low budget “Borscht Western” set during the bloody Russian civil war following the Bolshevik revolution. Adabashyan has designed eight Mikhalkov films in all, physically realizing such disparate visions as Moscow during the Khrushchev regime in 1979’s “Five Evenings,”…