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- Birth nameAlexei Viktorovich Gusev
- Height5′ 10¾″ (1.80 m)
- Alexei Gusev was born on September 11, 1977 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for Catalogue of Ships (2008).
- St.-Petersburg, Russia: Teaching a history of cinema.
- [from a university lecture, June 2011] Popular culture is an excellent way to survive. And now will bad news. Your survival is not my aim.
- [from a university lecture, April 2011] Cinema must be silent and black-and-white.
- [from a university lecture, April 2011] There are two main types of cinematography in Russia now. The first is from State Cinematography Institute: very correct, cleaned, sterile direction. Very beautiful one, with prescribed design. And, moreover, we have the second type; these are films that we can see in cinemas. It's a normal, classic insanity. And thereby we have to choose between castrates and epileptics.
- Could you advise how to watch a movie correctly?
- Five years. My advice will last five years. [An apprenticeship in Russian universities.]
- Perhaps, there is some short version?
- Five years. It is the short version.
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