1. Pavel Semyonovich Lungin is a Russian film director.
10 Facts About Pavel Lungin
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Pavel Lungin is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine.
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Pavel Lungin later attended Moscow State University at the Mathematics and Applied Linguistics of the Philological Faculty, from which he graduated in 1971.
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Pavel Lungin worked primarily as a scriptwriter until given the opportunity to direct Taxi Blues at age 40.
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Pavel Lungin was the librettist for Nikolai Karetnikov's opera Till Eulenspiegel and Karetnikov's oratorio The Mystery of St Paul.
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In 2001 Pavel Lungin began shooting his new film Tycoon based on Julii Dubov's novel The Big Ration.
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Pavel Lungin made the black comedy Poor Relatives in 2005, winner of the main prize of the Kinotavr 2005 Festival, and a television miniseries based on Nikolai Gogol's works, titled The Case of "Dead Souls", which premiered on NTV in September 2005.
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Pavel Lungin was the president of the jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival in 2009.
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Pavel Lungin directed the thriller The Queen of Spades in 2016.
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In 2019, along with his son Aleksander, Pavel Lungin won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Screenplay at the Shanghai International Film Festival.