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KUROV: Sounds of nature. In September 2019, the documentary “Novaya” by Askold Kurov won the first Willy Brandt Documentary Award for Freedom and Human Rights (awarded by the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin in cooperation with the “Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung”). Now his outstanding film is available online.
Born in Uzbekistan in 1974, Askold Kurov has lived in Russia since 1991. After studying philology, theatre, and theology and working for eight years as a package designer, he earned a degree in documentary filmmaking at the Marina Razbezhkina Film School in Moscow.
Askold Kurov was born on 22 March 1974 in Kokand, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Children 404 (2014), Welcome to Chechnya (2020) and Zima, ukhodi! (2012).
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- Director, Cinematographer, Producer
- Kokand, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]
- Askold Kurov
Mar 6, 2024 · Askold Kurov will be present for a post-screening debate of his film at the Festival at 3 p.m Saturday, March 9, alongside 2021 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Dmitry Muratov and UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova.
We decided to talk to the film's creators, Pavel Loparev and Askold Kurov, in 2024, when the Russian state declared the LGBTQ+ movement as extremist.
Jun 12, 2018 · Russian documentarian Askold Kurov recently visited filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is on hunger strike in Russia. I spoke to him about the role of documentary today, activism and conditions in...
Due to his denunciation of the regime, Askold Kurov was arrested by the Gestapo on 24 December 1944 and was interred in the EL-DE House, the Gestapo prison. In mid- February 1945, he escaped from the EL-DE House in a rather adventurous manner: He was ordered to transport files in the deep cellar.
