
Viktor Aristov
Known for DirectingBorn 1943-06-09Died 1994-01-02Budyonnovka, Kirghiz SSR, USSR
Viktor Fyodorovich Aristov (Russian: Виктор Фёдорович Аристов; 9 June 1943 – 2 January 1994; Budyonnovka) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed five films between 1980 and 1994. His 1991 film Satan was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. He was born on June 9, 1943 in the village of Budyonny of the Kyrgyz SSR. Prior to studying at the Institute, he worked as a stage driver at the Dzhambul Regional Drama Theater, a track worker at the tram and trolleybus department in Leningrad, a senior engineer at the A. Herzen Pedagogical Institute. In 1968, he graduated in absentia from the directing department of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (LGITMIK). As an assistant, he helped director Ilya Averbakh on the set of the film "Drama from Ancient Life", and as a second director he worked together with Alexey Herman, Sergei Mikaelyan, Joseph Heifitz. In addition, he starred in several films, including Kira Muratova in "Asthenic Syndrome" and "Learning the White World", Igor Maslennikov in "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Bloody inscription", by Sergey Snezhkin in "The Non-Returnee". In 1978, based on the story of Vasily Shukshin, he directed the short film "Brothers-in-Law", which was released only in 1987. In 1979, he wrote the script for the film by Dinara Asanova "The Wife is Gone". Fame came to director Viktor Aristov after the release of the film "Gunpowder". This work was awarded the Main Prize of the Leningrad Young Cinema Festival in 1987. Interest was also aroused by the director's new picture — "It's Difficult for the first hundred years", and Viktor Aristov's next work, the psychological thriller "Satan", shot by him according to his own script, won the Silver Bear prize at the 1991 Berlin Film Festival. While working on the film "Rains in the Ocean", the director died, and the shooting of this picture was completed by Yuri Mamin. He was buried at the Komarovsky cemetery (Komarovo village, St. Petersburg).Read more
Movies & web series
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A Twig in the Wind
1980 · Movie
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Drama from the Old Life
1971 · Movie
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Rain in the Ocean
1994 · Movie
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Help Me, Bros!
1988 · Movie
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
1980 · Series
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance
1980 · Movie
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The In-Laws
1987 · Movie
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription
1980 · Movie
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No Return
1991 · Movie
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
1980 · Series
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Widows
1977 · Movie
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Day of Admittance on Personal Matters
1974 · Movie
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
1985 · Movie
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Twenty Days Without War
1976 · Movie
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The First 100 Years Are Hard
1989 · Movie
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Gunpowder
1985 · Movie
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Love at First Sight
1975 · Movie
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The Asthenic Syndrome
1989 · Movie
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Satan
1991 · Movie
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The Wife Has Left
1979 · Movie
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Married for the First Time
1979 · Movie
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Getting to Know the Big Wide World
1978 · Movie
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Change of Fate
1987 · Movie
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Among Grey Stones
1983 · Movie

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Go And Don't Look Back
1992 · Movie

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Jump From the Roof
1978 · Movie

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Stopwatch
1970 · Movie