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Mikhail Agranovich (cinematographer)

Mikhail Agranovich
Born Mikhail Leonidovich Agranovich
(1946-09-08) September 8, 1946 (age 70)
Moscow
Occupation сinematographer, director
Years active 1970–present
Awards Nika Award (1988)
Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1989)
TEFI (2006)

Mikhail Leonidovich Agranovich (Russian: Михаи́л Леони́дович Аграно́вич; born 1946) is a Soviet and Russian cinematographer, director, teacher. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1987).

Born September 8, 1946 in Moscow in the family of the director Leonid Agranovich. Mikhail Agranovich graduated from VGIK in 1970, the workshop of Alexander Halperin. Since 1975 he works at the Mosfilm studio as an operator.

He took more than thirty films, worked with the classics of Soviet cinema Mikhail Schweitzer, Tengiz Abuladze, Gleb Panfilov. In 1995 he made the film Za co? with the Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Mikhail Agranovich has repeatedly been awarded professional prizes and awards. Filmed by Mikhail Agranovich films Repentance and Mother received special prizes of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2000 there was a film Come Look at Me, shot by Agranovich as a director (together with Oleg Yankovsky).

Teaches in VGIK. He directs the workshop at the camera faculty. Since 2015 - Head of the Department of camera skills in VGIK.

In 2011 Agranovich was the chairman of the jury at the festival Window to Europe  () in Vyborg.

In the first marriage with Emilia Kulik, the announcer of the All-Union Radio, Mikhail Agranovich was born in 1970 with his son Alexei, now a director.

The second wife of Mikhail Agranovich was Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina.

In the third marriage to the director and documentary screenwriter Alla Agranovich, Mikhail was born a daughter Maria (born 1989). In 2010 she graduated from the Directing Department of VGIK. In 2011, her debut film No problem won the prize For a mature youth at the contest Kinotavr Short Meter.


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