Andrey Zvyagintsev

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Born February 6, 1964· Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, USSR [now Russia]

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Emerging from Novosibirsk, Zvyagintsev first trained as an actor at the local theater school before completing studies at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow, later directing three episodes of the TV series The Black Room. His feature debut, The Return, captured the Golden Lion at Venice and earned a Golden Globe nod, while his second film, The Banishment, contended for Cannes’ Palme d…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources