The domestic scriptwriter and director Aleksey Mizgirev, whose films are currently highly praised by the viewer and film experts, was born in July 1974 in the provincial town of Myski, Kemerovo Region. Following to his creative vocation - filmmaking - Mizgirev was a long one.
Student years
After successful graduation, the future director enters the Faculty of Philosophy of Tomsk State University, after graduation he goes to conquer the capital. Arriving in Moscow, Alexey Mizgirev enters the directing department of VGIK. A significant influence on the formation of the creative style of the director is exerted by his mentor - master of the course, master of domestic directing Vadim Abdrashitov, whose work is distinguished by an emphasis on moral issues. During the training, Alexei was lucky to participate in the filming process of the film "Magnetic Storms", which was set by Abdrashitov. In addition, a diligent student repeatedly participated in student festivals, presented his author's projects to the court of fellow students.
Debut
Alexei Mizgirev made his film debut in 2005, speaking as one of the directors of the crime serial film “Kulagin and Partners”. His first independent work is the social-crime drama "Flint" (2007). From his Vgikovsky mentor V. Abdrashitov, who was the chairman of the jury of the Kinotavr festival, the aspiring director received two prizes at once. Critics appreciated Mizgirev's debut project: some called the film the new “Brother 3”, others compared the project with the Abdrashitovsky “Plumbum, or Dangerous Game”.
"A Tale of Darkness"
The next work of the director, the social drama "Tambourine, Drum", caused the most controversial reviews, it was even actively discussed in the State Duma. Cinematographic work, in which Mizgirev acted as a director and screenwriter, film critics were positioned as a masterpiece of the domestic film industry. The director did not aesthetize the drama, did not admire it, which many of his colleagues in the guilty sin, hiding behind the author’s vision. Alexey Mizgirev told the story clearly and even chilly. At the same time, if his direction was almost perfect, it corresponded to all professional parameters and requirements, then in the script, the experts managed to detect about a dozen errors and minor flaws.
Magical realism
Alexey Mizgirev, whose filmography currently has more than a dozen paintings, in 2012 at the Berlin Film Festival presents a new project - the dramatic film "Convoy". After the premiere screening, the entire festival community and the press unanimously entered this tape into the list of Russian films that must be watched.
Russia of zero, torn by lawlessness, is represented in the drama by a mystical state, where, according to the laws of the genre, there is absolute evil, helpless goodness and a knight unwilling to go to either side. According to foreign film critics, the drama of Mizgirev is similar to the comic book about a superhero. At the same time, with all the gloominess and the absence of a happy end in the generally accepted sense, the picture ends on a positive note.
Alexey Mizgirev in 2016 made the film “The Duelist”. His riskiness, excitement turned the project into something more than just an exciting and good film.