Director,
Writer,
Actor,
Producer
Born 1973, USSR (Russia)
 
 
Aleksandr KOTT
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Александр Константинович КОТТ
Aleksandr KOTT
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2025 - Pavel. The first and the last (Павел. Первый и последний) [fiction, serial, 50 mn]
2024 - North Pole (Северный полюс) [fiction, 120 mn]
2024 - Fir trees 11 (Ёлки 11) [fiction, 96 mn]
2022 - The Adventures of Chuck & Huck (Чук и Гек. Большое приключение) [fiction, 94 mn]
2021 - Seventh Symphony (Седьмая симфония) [fiction]
2021 - Gogol-Mogol (Гоголь-моголь) [fiction, 20 mn]
2021 - Arbat Secrets (Арбатские тайны) [fiction, serial, 51 mn]
2018 - Spitak (Спитак) [fiction, 98 mn]
2017 - Trotsky (Троцкий) [serial, 50 mn]
2016 - Dien do (День до) [fiction, 91 mn]
2015 - Insight (Инсайт) [fiction, 90 mn]
2014 - Test (Испытание) [fiction, 95 mn]
2013 - Yolki 3 (Елки 3) [fiction, 100 mn]
2012 - Another side of the Moon (Обратная сторона Луны) [fiction, full length film]
2011 - Six Degrees of Celebration 2 (Елки 2) [fiction, 106 mn]
2010 - Battle for honor. The Brest Fortress (Брестская крепость) [fiction, 140 mn]
2007 - The Fish (Рыба) [fiction, 15 mn]
2006 - Kniazhna Mary (Княжна Мери) [fiction, 100 mn]
2006 - PechorinGeroy nashego vremeni (Печорин. Герой нашего времени) [fiction, 306 mn]
2004 - Konvoy PQ-17 (Конвой PQ-17) [fiction, serial, 413 mn]
2003 - Personal Difficulties (Личные трудности) [TV film, 46 mn]
2003 - Giant (Великан) [15 mn]
2001 - Two Drivers (Ехали два шофера) [fiction, 78 mn]
2000 - Scarecrow (Пугало) [fiction, 15 mn]
1997 - Puteshestvie (Путешествие) [fiction, short film]
1997 - Photograph (Фотограф) [fiction, 10 mn]
 
Writer
2021 - Seventh Symphony (Седьмая симфония) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction]
2021 - Gogol-Mogol (Гоголь-моголь) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 20 mn]
2016 - Dien do (День до) from Egor BARANOV , Pavel BARDIN , Aleksandr KARPILOVSKY , Boris KHLEBNIKOV , Vladimir KOTT , Aleksandr KOTT , Karen OGANESYAN [fiction, 91 mn]
2015 - Insight (Инсайт) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 90 mn]
2014 - Test (Испытание) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 95 mn]
2010 - Battle for honor. The Brest Fortress (Брестская крепость) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 140 mn]
2007 - The Fish (Рыба) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 15 mn]
2003 - Giant (Великан) from Aleksandr KOTT [15 mn]
2001 - Two Drivers (Ехали два шофера) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 78 mn]
2000 - Scarecrow (Пугало) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 15 mn]
1997 - Photograph (Фотограф) from Aleksandr KOTT [fiction, 10 mn]
 
Actor
2016 - Spring, come! (Весна, приходи !) from Yelizaveta KLEYNOT , Darya RAZUMNIKOVA [fiction, short film]
 
Producer
2021 - Alibi (Алиби) from Nurbek EGEN [fiction, 58 mn]
2019 - The Defenders (Заступники) from Vladimir KOTT [fiction, full length film]
2017 - Pagans (Язычники) from Valeria SURKOVA [fiction, 92 mn]
2016 - Dien do (День до) from Egor BARANOV , Pavel BARDIN , Aleksandr KARPILOVSKY , Boris KHLEBNIKOV , Vladimir KOTT , Aleksandr KOTT , Karen OGANESYAN [fiction, 91 mn]

Other films
2010 – Подсадной (Decoy)
2009 - Я покажу тебе Москву (I’ll Show You Moscow)
2008 – Пробка (Traffic Jam)
2006 - Герой нашего времени (Hero of Our Time), TV series
1998 – Веревка (A Rope), short
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk
Awards :
Seventh Symphony :
Best Serial, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2022
Spitak :
Best Directing, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2018
Test :
, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Insight :
Best Screenplay, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2015
Best Screenplay, International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2015
Test :
First prize, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Prize, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics Diploma, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Special Prize, Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2014
Special mention, Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
First prize, International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014
The Fish :
Special Jury prize, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand (France), 2008
Best Short Film, Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2007
Two Drivers :
Prix de la meilleure réalisation au Festival "Kinoshock" à Anapa, 2001
Biography
Born in 1973 in Moscow.
In 1997 he attended a master class of Andrzej Wajda in Krakow. In 2000 he graduated from directing department of VGIK (class of V.Khotinenko).
 
Commentaries
- Aleksandr Kott: North Pole (Severnyi polius, 2025) Stephen NORRIS, 2025, Kinokultura
- Les cinq meilleurs films historiques russes Boris EGOROV, 2024, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Jeanne d’Arc, Louis XIII, Frida... Quand les acteurs russes incarnent des personnalités historiques 2023, RUSSIA BEYOND
- RUSSIA BEYOND : Les dix meilleurs films de guerre russes Boris EGOROV, 2020, RUSSIA BEYOND
- RUSSIA BEYOND: Loin des clichés: douze films criants de vérité sur le front de l’Est durant la guerre Boris EGOROV, 2020, RUSSIA BEYOND
- Trotsky sur Netflix ou le grand n’importe quoi historique Raquel BARBIERI VIDAL, 2019, revolutionpermanente.fr
- Trotsky, la série Netflix qui assassine l’histoire soviétique Nicole M. FORD / Florence DELAHOCHE, 2019, slate.fr
- Pour Trotsky sonne le glas 2019, actu-hg.hatier.fr
- Yolki 3 (Elki 3, 2013) Beach GRAY, 2014, Kinokultura
- Dmitrii Kiselev: Six Degrees of Celebration 2 (Elki 2, 2011) , Beach GRAY, 2012, kinokultura.com
- Comment sont regardés les films sur la Grande Guerre patriotique dans la Russie actuelle ? Myriam DÉSERT, 2011, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
- Aleksandr Kott : The Brest Fortress (Brestskaia krepost’, 2010) 2010, kinokultura.com