Belyakov, Victor Konstantinovich

Born in 1954 in Moscow. In 1977 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute , worked as a radio engineer, and served in the army from 1978 to 1980. In 1986 he graduated from the cinematography department of VGIK (workshop of N.P. Tumanova).

From 1986 to 1990 he worked as editor of the Glavka for the production of documentaries of the Goskino USSR. Since 1990, as a screenwriter, he collaborated with the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio, where in 1992, co-authored with director Viktor Semenyuk, he created the two-part documentary film The Romanovs House, based entirely on archival footage of the Tsar’s newsreel and for the first time telling the most fully about the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. The film received the prize of the All-Russian Orthodox Film Festival.

In 1994-1995, he created the Klio Film studio, at which the Russian Front , Dreaming of Me in Germany ..., Comintern, television cycle program Personal Memoirs of a Great Life were released at different times. ”, Based entirely on amateur material filmed by different people during the Soviet Union on an 8-mm movie camera.

Since 1993, it has simultaneously been helping various Western and domestic film and television companies in selecting archived film materials from various Russian archives. Thanks to certain efforts, many rare documents and a unique newsreel were found and rediscovered.

In 1997, he worked on NTV as the author of the program " Old TV ", in 1998-1999 he worked as a director of documentary films on the TV Center channel.

In the last 10 years he has created documentaries for the TV channel " Russia ", ORT , the channel " Culture ". Some of them were created in the Cultural Fund " Orthodox Encyclopedia ".

In 2008, the film “The Cold Thaw of 61” received the Grand Prix of the 3rd International Festival of Popular Science Cinema in St. Petersburg.

In 2009-2011, he actively collaborated with the Triton Studio (inaccessible link) , where he created a series of films based on the preserved color films of the post-war period, in which the lost natural colors were first restored and a picture of the life of post-war generations of people was revealed in a certain fullness. All these films enjoyed some success on television.

• "Slices of the next war"
• "Grace"
• “Private chronicles. Monologue"

• 2011 - Alexander Sumbatov-Yuzhin. Battle for the theater - director, screenwriter
• 2010 - The Color of Life. Start - Director, co-writer
• 2010 - The battle for color. Cinema - director, screenwriter
• 2010 - Waiting in Sukhinichi - director, screenwriter
• 2009 - Color of Moscow - director, co-author of the script
• 2008 - The Road of Knowledge - Director, co-author of the script
• 2007 - Cold thaw of the 61st year - director, co-author of the script
• 2006 - Stalin and the Third Rome - director, co-author of the script
• 2006 - Cross against the swastika - director, co-author of the script
• 2005 - Elokhov Cathedral - Director
• 2005 - Russian love of Christina Onasis - director, screenwriter
• 2004 - The Mysterious Life of Nikolai Ostrovsky - Director, Screenwriter
• 2004 - Who are you, Mr. Reed? - director, screenwriter
• 2003 - Suslov. Gray Cardinal - director, screenwriter
• 2003 - Landfill - director, screenwriter
• 2001 - Personal Memories of a Great Life - Director, Producer
• 2001 - Comintern - director, screenwriter
• 2000 - I dream that I am in Germany - director, screenwriter
• 2000 - Prologue of the Great Patriotic War - director, producer
• 1999 - The peoples of Russia - director, screenwriter
• 1998 - Nicholas II. Circle of Life - Director
• 1996 - Grace - Screenwriter
• 1996 - Lenin. Leader and Patient - Director, Screenwriter
• 1995 - Ten Great Deceptions - Director
• 1994 - Russian Front - director, screenwriter
• 1992 - House of Romanovs - director, screenwriter

• 2007 - Grand Prix of the Third International Festival of Popular Science Cinema for the film “The Cold Thaw of the 61st Year”
• 2001 - All-Russian competition " Culture on Television 2001-2002 ". Prize in the nomination "Documentary" for the film "I dream that I'm in Germany"
• 2000 - Laureate of the Ford Foundation and Goethe Institute commemorative medal for the film "I dream that I'm in Germany ..."
• 1999 - Grand Prix of the II Eurasian Teleforum 99 for the film "Peoples of Russia"
• 1992 - Prize of the First All-Russian Orthodox Film Festival for the film "Romanov Dynasty"

• The Tsar’s Chronicle - the Experience of Film Publishing // “Cinema Notes”, vol. 18. - M .: 1993, - S. 23-37.
• Publication and introductory text. Catalog of the filming of A. K. Yagelsky // "Cinema Notes", vol. 18. - M .: 1993, - S. 98-106.

• Victor Belyakov on kinopoisk.ru