Kavun Andrey Biography
Russian and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, producer. The creator of the films "Piranha Hunt" and "Kandahar". Andrei Kavun was born on December 9 in Lviv in the family of a director and actress. After graduation, he served for two years a sailor in the fleet. His diploma film “How much does this fish cost the first fame to him by the television series“ Cadets ”, shot in the year based on the autobiographical story of Peter Todorovsky“ Remember - Don’t remember ”.
The series takes place in the winter of the year in one of the rear artillery schools, where recruits are being prepared for sending to the front. The picture for the first time in the history of Russian television was nominated for the Emmy International Award. In the year, he shot the militant "Piranha Hunting" according to the script of Dmitry Zverekov. The basis for the film was the Bestseller book of the same name Alexander Bushkov from a series of books about the life and adventures of Cyril Mazur, nicknamed Piranha.
According to the plot, an officer of the naval special forces, Kirill Mazur, nicknamed Piranha, receives an order to go with Major Olga Khmelnitskaya to the Lake area of a dead, located near the Chinese border. Thirty years ago, a scientific laboratory was flooded there, in which there were nine fatal capsules. In the year, the drama of the Kandahar Kavuna was released on the screens.
The historical tape is based on real events. The prototype of a fictional character, acting as a coordinator and sponsor of the escape of Russian pilots, is Viktor But. According to the plot in the year in Afghanistan, the Russian cargo plane was forcibly planted at the airfield in the capital of Islamic terrorism - the city of Kandahar. Five Russian pilots were captured by fanatics-plots.
They have to live days in hell and then break out to freedom. Then he removed the youth tape “Children to the audience was popular with the audience, his detective television series“ Sherlock Holmes ”based on the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle about the detective of Sherlock Holmes. The premiere of the film took place from November 18 to 28 on the Russia-1 television channel.
Eight stories were filmed about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, each of which is allocated two series. The series includes new versions of stories, as well as stories first transferred to the Russian screen. The socio-political position of Andrei Kavun in the year against the backdrop of an aggravation of interstate relations between Ukraine and Russia Andrei Kavun decided to return to Ukraine after 25 years of residence in Russia.
In an interview with the Ukrainian media, he complained about the unclaimed himself as a director in Ukraine, but expressed the hope that in the future the situation may change. I know the language, because I grew up in Lviv, just over 25 years of life in Russia, he still forgot it. But even in a year of my life in Lviv, I did not find a sufficient Ukrainian -speaking environment to do this.
I completely support the fact that television is forced to increase the amount of Ukrainian -language content. The Russian language, or rather, how Russia uses it in this war, is a weapon of struggle and propaganda. Therefore, I think we need to follow the path of Israel, which, when creating our state in the early years, literally planted Hebrew so that it really becomes a mass phenomenon and the only state language, ”he said.
Lives in Kyiv.