Pavel Yurevich Ruminov (russian: Па́вел Ю́рьевич Руми́нов; born 25 November 1974) is a
Russian
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film director. He began his career in
Vladivostok
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directing
music video
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s for Russian acts such as
Mumiy Troll
Mumiy Troll (russian: Му́мий Тро́лль ) is a Russian rock group, founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko (). The band's name translates as "mummy troll" and is a pun on '' Mumintroll'', the children's ...
and
Zemfira
Zemfira Talgatovna Ramazanova (russian: Земфира Талгатовна Рамазанова, tt-Cyrl, Земфира Тәлгать кызы Рамазанова; born 26 August 1976) is a Russian rock musician. She has been performing si ...
before relocating to
Moscow
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. He is best known in Russia for the Internet-based hype surrounding his first feature film ''
Dead Daughters'', where he tried to marry horror and
arthouse
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cinema effectively. The film divided critics in Russia, some praised its style and message, others found the structure of the movie to be very strange. He sold the remake rights for ''Dead Daughters'' to the
Hollywood studio
Gold Circle Films
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but no remake has been produced. His second film ''Circumstances'', a
romantic comedy
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with dark overtones, was released in Russia in September 2009, but failed at the box-office. In 2012 his third movie ''
Ya Budu Ryadom'' won the gran-prix for the best film at 23rd open film festival
Kinotavr
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, the largest national film festival in Russia. Besides professional cinema, Pavel also makes amateur movies of his family and friends which are available on his website at
YouTube
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.
Ruminov once compared himself favourably to such filmmakers as
Steven Spielberg,
Stanley Kubrick,
Jean-Luc Godard, and
M. Night Shyamalan. He was the only Russian contributor to Cinema Now,
Taschen
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History
The company began as Taschen Comics, ...
's 2008 survey of contemporary cinema.
Filmography
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