Pavel Yurevich Ruminov is a Russian

Russians

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 film director

Film director

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. He began his career in Vladivostok

Vladivostok

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 directing Music video

Music video

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s for Russian acts such as Mumiy Troll

Mumiy Troll

Mumiy Troll is a Russian rock group, founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist and songwriter Ilya Lagutenko . The literal name of the band, 'The mummies' troll', is a pun on Moomin Troll, the series of Finnish children's books by Tove Jansson.Mumiy Troll broke up when Lagutenko, who graduated in...

 and Zemfira

Zemfira

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 before relocating to Moscow

Moscow

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. He is best known in Russia for the internet-based hype surrounding his third feature film Dead Daughters

Dead Daughters

Dead Daughters is a Russian arthouse horror film directed by Pavel Ruminov.- Plot :In present day Moscow. A woman is waiting in her car for a traffic light to change, when a seemingly crazy man gets into her car and demands that she drive away immediately...

, an incoherent Russian pastiche of J-horror

J-Horror

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 tropes featuring shaky camerawork and ponderous acting, which flopped on its release in 2007. This was due in part to its failure to successfully marry horror and arthouse

Art film

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 cinema effectively. He sold the remake rights to Dead Daughters to Hollywood studio Gold Circle Films

Gold Circle Films

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 but to date no remake has been produced. His fourth film Circumstances, a romantic comedy

Romantic Comedy

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 with dark overtones, was released in Russia in September 2009 to almost universal indifference. Currently he makes amateur movies of his family and friends which are available on his website and YouTube

YouTube

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. He has no plans to return to commercial cinema.

Ruminov once compared himself favourably to such filmmakers as Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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, Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

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, Jean Luc Godard, and M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan,known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies in and around...

. He was the only Russian contributor to Cinema Now, Taschen

Taschen

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's 2008 survey of contemporary cinema.

Filmography

• Obstoyatelstva (Circumstances) (2008)
• Myortvye docheri
  Dead Daughters
  Dead Daughters is a Russian arthouse horror film directed by Pavel Ruminov.- Plot :In present day Moscow. A woman is waiting in her car for a traffic light to change, when a seemingly crazy man gets into her car and demands that she drive away immediately...
  
  (Dead Daughters) (2007)
• Chelovek, kotoryy molchal (Silent Man) (2004)
• Kluchevoe deystvie (Deadline) (2004)

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