Levin, Alexander Viktorovich

Alexander Levin was born on February 14, 1960 in Moscow. In the 1980s, he suffered from the actions of the Soviet government for his own religious beliefs ^[1] .

In 1981 he graduated from the film department of the Moscow Institute of Culture .

Cinema

He worked at the studios Soyuzreklamfilm and Tsentrnauchfilm ^[2] .

From 1992 to 1998 - General Director of the Dixi Film Company.

Television

At the beginning of his activities on television, Alexander Levin took part in the development of television projects for various channels: “Endless Journey” ( RTR ), “National Interest” ( REN-TV , RTR ) ^{[3] [4]} , “Russian Gorki with Mikhail Taratuta” ( NTV ), “Process” ( ORT ) ^[5] . He acted as a producer of films from the series "Recent History" (NTV) - " Seventeen Moments of Spring 25 Years Later ", "Meeting Place 25 Years Later", "Heart of Yeltsin " and others ^[6] .

From April 1999 to April 2001 - the main producer of the NTV television company ^[6] . Replaced Leonid Parfyonov at this post ^[7] . He was invited by the leadership of the channel in order to increase the artistic (non-informational) broadcasting on NTV and to develop new formats for television programs ^[8] . He worked on NTV in this capacity until the arrival of Boris Yordan and his team on April 14, 2001 ^[9] .

After changing the leadership of the television company, in May 2001 he switched to TV-6 , where until January 2002 he held the position of general producer ^[10] .

Since June 2002, he has been General Director of CJSC Sixth TV Channel ( TVS ), he has been working in this position for three months ^[11] . From October 2002 to January 2003 ^[12] - First Deputy General Director, Chief Producer of CJSC Sixth TV Channel ^[13] .

After being fired from TVS, Alexander founded the independent television production company TeleFormat, producing programs for Channel One , STS , NTV and other channels, and in 2003-2004 he was the general producer of this television company ^[14] .

After Vladimir Kulistikov was appointed the head of NTV, the channel began a complete regrouping of the management team and the massive closure of the programs ^{[15] [16]} . In July 2004, at the invitation of Kulistikov, Alexander became deputy general director and chief producer of the NTV television channel ^[17] . He replaced Kirill Nabutov at his post ^[18] .

Levin’s policy as the main NTV producer from July 2004 to May 2005 was largely related to the involvement of experienced personnel working on the old NTV, or TV-6 and TVS ^[19] , but his experiments were unsuccessful: as by the beginning of 2005, almost none of his projects brought the expected results at the launch stage ^[20] . On June 1, 2005, he left his post at his own request ^[21] . According to media reports, the producer’s departure from NTV could be associated primarily with rating and broadcast failures of such television projects as “ School of Slander ” ^[22] , “Short Meetings” ^[23] , “Stress”, “The Hobbits” and “First night with Oleg Menshikov ” ^[24] .

TEFI Prize Laureate, member of the Russian Television Academy since 2001 ^[25] .

Currently, Levin is the managing partner of the television alliance TeleAlliance Media Holding ^[26] . Since July 2013, is the owner of an Israeli television channel in Russian ^[27] .

Alexander’s assets include a large number of television programs, among them: “ Dolls ” ^[2] , “ Independent Investigation ”, “ Without a prescription ”, “Day by Day” (second version) ^[28] , “ Behind the Glass ”, “ Housing Question ” ^{[ 29]} , “ Raffle ” ^[30] , “ Federal Judge ”, “Third Half” ^[31] , “ Understand. Forgive ”,“ Voice of the People ” ^[32] ,“ Galileo ”,“ Oh, lucky! ”,“ Duel ”,“ Ships entered our harbor ”,“ Earth-Air ”,“ Female look ”,“ Stress ” ^[33] ,“ Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov ” ^[34] ,“ Mind games ” ^[35] , “Real politics” ^[36] , “ Travels of the naturalist ” ^[37] , “Dangerous world”, “Real world” ^[38] , the morning channel “ This morning ” ^[39] , re-launched in the fall of 2004, the series “ Detectives ”, “ precinct detective "," Next "," wedding ring "," Comrades, the police "," Fifth guardian "," CCA "," Water area "," Witnesses ", and others. in addition, the idea of Alexander in Russia began to display the most popular th car program for the Top Gear .

The main producer of the Sixth TEFI -2000 Award Ceremony ^[40] .