Yuli Gusman

In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisSolomonovichand thefamily nameisGusman.

Yuli Gusman
Yuli Gusman in 2012
Born	Yuli Solomonovich Gusman (1943-08-08)8 August 1943 Baku,Azerbaijan SSR,USSR
Occupations	Film director actor
Website	yulygusman.info

Yuli Solomonovich Gusman(Russian:Юлий Соломонович Гусман;born 8 August 1943) is a Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijani film director and actor. He is the founder and CEO of theNika Award.

Life and career

Yuli Gusman was born inBaku,Azerbaijan to military physician Solomon Gusman and professor Lola Barsuk, who later became a translator and professor at theAzerbaijan University of Languages.His brotherMikhailis the vice-president of theInformation Telegraph Agency of Russia.In 1966 Yuli Gusman graduated from theAzerbaijan Medical University,majoring intherapeutics,and in 1970 earned a master's degree in Psychology and Psychiatry. He wrote a research paper to defend a thesis for another medical degree, but chose not to do so after being admitted to the Higher Film Directing Courses atGoskino.Upon graduating in 1976 he worked atAzerbaijanfilmdirected such films as Iliq danizda buz parçasi (1983) (An Iceberg in a Warm Sea) and Bir ailalik bag evi (1978) (A Dacha for One Family) and was the director of the satiricalnewsreelMozalan.In the 1970s and the 1980s he worked as manager and director of theAzerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedyand theSong Theatre.He has directed seven films and a number of stage plays, including outside the Soviet Union (in the United States, Japan and China).

In 1965–1972 he was head of Baku'sKVNteam. He introduced the uniform practice for all KVN teams. In 1993 he was elected to theState Dumaof thefirst convocation(1993–1995). In 1988–2002 Gusman was chairman of the Cinematography Centre (Dom Kino) in Moscow. In 1996–2000 he hosted the primetime talk-showTemaand the weekly talk-showVecher s Yuliem Gusmanom( "An Evening with Yuli Gusman" ) onChannel One (Russia).In 1996 he founded and became one of the CEOs of theRussian Jewish Congress.In 2004 he was awarded with theOrder of Friendship.

He is married to Valida Gusman, a French language professor and retired lecturer in the Slavic Languages Department atGeorgetown University.They have a daughter named Lola, a grandson named Maximilian and a granddaughter named Nadia.

Notable filmography

As a director

• On One Fine Day(В один прекрасный день,Azerbaijanfilm, 1977)
• Cottage for a Family(Дачный домик для одной семьи,Azerbaijanfilm, 1978)
• Don't Be Afraid, I Am Here For You(Не бойся, я с тобой,Azerbaijanfilm, 1981)
• Ice Floe In The Warm Sea(Льдина в тёплом море,1986)
• The Soviet Period Park(Парк советского периода,Slovo, 2006)
• Don't Be Afraid, I Am Here For You! 1919(Не бойся, я с тобой! 1919,Azerbaijanfilm, WaiT Media, 2011)

As an actor

• Nastya(Mosfilm,1993), as TV-host
• The Soviet Period Park(Slovo, 2006), as himself

External links

• Yuli GusmanatIMDb