Alim Kouliev
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Alim Kaisynovich Kouliev (born June 24, 1959) is a Russian-American actor and director. Kouliev was born in Nalchik
— a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev
. His elder brother Eldar Kuliev
is a Russian
film director
and a screenwriter
, living in Moscow
. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev
is the Russian
painter
, living and working in Istanbul
, Turkey
. At the age of seven, Kouliev was influenced by Vladimir Visotsky an acclaimed Russian actor, poet and singer, one of his father's younger colleagues in a poetry field. Alim decided to become an actor.
. After serving in the Soviet Army
, he continued his education at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow
, where he graduated from the acting class of Yevgeny Matveyev, an acclaimed master of theater and cinema. His class mate was Natalya Vavilova
. Kouliev also studied stage directing at GITIS in 1981.
Ever since he was a student, Kouliev appeared on professional stage. His first significant role on stage was Mercutio
in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
at Aleksandr Demidov Theater-Studio, where he also plaid Atavio in The Moods of Marianne
by Alfred de Musset
and Meleander in Maurice Maeterlinck
's Aglavain and Selyzett. He broke into films starring as a Joseph Codrero in Copper Angel
with Leonid Kuravlyov
, Anatoly Kuznetsov
, Aleksandr Filippenko
, Leonid Yarmolnik
. He has twelve years of acting experience working in several leading Moscow theaters and has had several roles in famous Russian feature films. He has also performed extensively as an actor for radio and TV. Kouliev created many great characters in classic and contemporary productions, under the best Russian theatrical and cinema directors.
In 1991 his live has dramatically changed. He moved to the United States
.
After the long break in his career as an actor Kouliev has made his comeback. In Los Angeles
, he has become a key member of the theatrical troupe Dreamhouse Ensemble, where he played Sasha Smirnoff in Room Service
and Uncle Tovit in Jimmy Christ. At the present time the producer-actor-director works in Hollywood with "The Master Project", his own stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov
’s novel The Master and Margarita
. The Staging of Master and Margarita has been Kouliev's long-cherished dream as a director. He vividly expresses himself in the Master Project as a mature and sophisticated painter of life.
Nalchik
Nalchik is the capital city of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia, situated at an altitude of in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains; about northwest of Beslan in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. It covers an area of...
— a small city in USSR. His father was the Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev
Qaysin Quli
Kaisyn Shuvayevich Kuliev aka Kaisyn Kuliev, or Qaysin Quli was a Balkar poet. He wrote in the Karachay-Balkar language and his poems are widely translated mostly to USSR languages, such as Russian, Ossetian and to many others languages all around the world.-Biography:Kaisyn Kuliev was born on...
. His elder brother Eldar Kuliev
Eldar Kuliev
Eldar Kaisynovich Kouliev is a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was born in Frunze while Deportation of the Balkars to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan by the order of Stalin to the family of Kaisyn Kuliev, an acclaimed Balkar poet. His younger brother Alim Kouliev is a Russian-American actor...
is a Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and a screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, living in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. His younger brother Azamat Kuliev
Azamat Kuliev
Azamat Kaisynovich Kouliev is a Russian artist. Kouliev was born in Nalchik – a capital of Kabardino-Balkaria – to the family of Balkar poet Kaisyn Kuliev. His elder brother Alim Kouliev is a Russian-American actor living and working in Hollywood. His eldest brother Eldar Kuliev is a Russian...
is the Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, living and working in Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. At the age of seven, Kouliev was influenced by Vladimir Visotsky an acclaimed Russian actor, poet and singer, one of his father's younger colleagues in a poetry field. Alim decided to become an actor.
Biography
He studied acting at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. After serving in the Soviet Army
Soviet Army
The Soviet Army is the name given to the main part of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1992. Previously, it had been known as the Red Army. Informally, Армия referred to all the MOD armed forces, except, in some cases, the Soviet Navy.This article covers the Soviet Ground...
, he continued his education at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, where he graduated from the acting class of Yevgeny Matveyev, an acclaimed master of theater and cinema. His class mate was Natalya Vavilova
Natalya Vavilova
-Biography:Vavilova started her career as an actress at the age of fourteen. She appeared in several pictures in supporting roles.In 1984, Natalya Vavilova graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, studying under Yevgeny Matveyev, an acclaimed Russian actor and director. Her...
. Kouliev also studied stage directing at GITIS in 1981.
Ever since he was a student, Kouliev appeared on professional stage. His first significant role on stage was Mercutio
Mercutio
Mercutio a fictional character in William Shakespeare's 1597 tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. He is a close friend of Romeo, and Romeo's cousin Benvolio, and also a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris. As such, being neither a Montague nor a Capulet, Mercutio is one of the few in Verona...
in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
at Aleksandr Demidov Theater-Studio, where he also plaid Atavio in The Moods of Marianne
The Moods of Marianne
The Moods of Marianne , is an 1833 play by French dramatist Alfred de Musset. It served as the basis for Jean Renoir's 1939 film, The Rules of the Game....
by Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
and Meleander in Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...
's Aglavain and Selyzett. He broke into films starring as a Joseph Codrero in Copper Angel
Copper Angel (film)
Copper Angel is a 1984 Soviet motion picture production of Gorky Film Studios. The film was directed by Soviet director Veniamyn Dorman and starred Anatoly Kuznetsov, Leonid Kuravlyov and Aleksandr Filippenko.-Plot:...
with Leonid Kuravlyov
Leonid Kuravlyov
Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov is a Soviet/Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR .Leonid Kuravlyov was born in Moscow in 1936. He lost his father when he was still a little boy. In 1941, Kuravlyov's mother was falsely accused and exiled to the Russian North, where they would spend...
, Anatoly Kuznetsov
Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov
Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov is a Soviet and Russian actor, probably best known for his role as a Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov in White Sun of the Desert . He graduated from Theatrical School of Moscow Art Theater in 1955. His brother Mikhail Kuznetsov is a Russian actor. Anatoly Kuznestov was...
, Aleksandr Filippenko
Aleksandr Filippenko
Aleksandr Georgievich Filippenko is a famous Soviet and Russian actor. Filippenko was honored with People's Artist of Russia in 2000.-Biography:...
, Leonid Yarmolnik
Leonid Yarmolnik
Leonid Isaakovich Yarmolnik is a Soviet and Russian actor and film producer.-Biography:Leonid Yarmolnik was born on January, 22nd, 1954 in Grodekovo of Primorsky Krai to the family of the Soviet Army officer. In 1960th Yarmolnik's family has located in Lvov. Leonid studied there at musical...
. He has twelve years of acting experience working in several leading Moscow theaters and has had several roles in famous Russian feature films. He has also performed extensively as an actor for radio and TV. Kouliev created many great characters in classic and contemporary productions, under the best Russian theatrical and cinema directors.
In 1991 his live has dramatically changed. He moved to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
After the long break in his career as an actor Kouliev has made his comeback. In Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, he has become a key member of the theatrical troupe Dreamhouse Ensemble, where he played Sasha Smirnoff in Room Service
Room Service (play)
Room Service is a play written by Allen Boretz and John Murray. It was originally produced by George Abbott and debuted at the Cort Theatre in New York on May 19, 1937. Its initial production ran for 500 performances, closing on July 16, 1938. The play was revived for a short run of 16...
and Uncle Tovit in Jimmy Christ. At the present time the producer-actor-director works in Hollywood with "The Master Project", his own stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...
’s novel The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a...
. The Staging of Master and Margarita has been Kouliev's long-cherished dream as a director. He vividly expresses himself in the Master Project as a mature and sophisticated painter of life.
Filmography
- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012)
- I Love Your Moves (video) (2012)
- Taxi Dance (2009)
- Standard Operating ProcedureStandard Operating Procedure (film)Standard Operating Procedure is a 2008 documentary film which explores the meaning of the photographs taken by U.S. military police at the Abu Ghraib prison in late 2003, the content of which revealed the torture and abuse of its prisoners by U.S. soldiers and subsequently resulted in a public...
(2008) - The Secret KGB Paranormal Files (2001) (TV)
- The Story of One Billiard-Room (1988)
- All Costs PaidAll Costs Paid (film)"All Costs Paid" is a Soviet TV miniseries produced by Studio Ekran. The director Aleksei Saltykov well known for his film The Chairman with Mikhail Ulyanov, an acclaimed Russian actor playing a main character. All Costs Paid is one of the first Soviet feature films that shows the war in...
(1988) (TV) - Jaguar (1986)
- Copper AngelCopper Angel (film)Copper Angel is a 1984 Soviet motion picture production of Gorky Film Studios. The film was directed by Soviet director Veniamyn Dorman and starred Anatoly Kuznetsov, Leonid Kuravlyov and Aleksandr Filippenko.-Plot:...
(1984) - Immured in glass (Zamurovannye v stekle) (1978)