Boris Frumin
Boris Moiseevich Frumin (Boriss Frumins; born 24 October 1947) is a Soviet, American and Latvian film director and screenwriter.
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Boris Frumin
- Name
- Boris Frumin
- Born
- 24 October 1947
- Birthplace
- Riga, Latvian SSR
- Occupation
- Film director Screenwriter
- Nationality
- Latvia · Soviet Union
- Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Languages
- Latvian
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• Name — Boris Frumin • Born — 24 October 1947 • Birthplace — Riga, Latvian SSR • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter • Years Active — 1975-present
Career
Career
Frumin's film Errors of Youth was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. His project Siberian Triangle was presented at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival. Frumin is an associate professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he shares his passion for neo-realism and Eastern European film.
Filmography
Filmography
• Diary of a School Director (1975) • Family Melodrama (1976) • Errors of Youth (1978) • Black and White (1992) • Viva Castro! (1994) • Nelegal (2006) • Street Days (2010) • Blind Dates (2013) • Blizzard of Souls (2019; screenwriter)
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- 1.Public Broadcasting of Latvia. Film director Frumin awarded Latvian citizenship. 25 March 2021.
- 2.Festival de Cannes: Errors of Youth. festival-cannes.com.
- 3.FNE at MIFF 2010: Polish Films Take Home Two Silver Georges'.
- 4.Poland, David. DP/30: Winter's Bone, co-writer/director Debra Granik. DP/30: The Oral History Of Hollywood. 4 September 2011.
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