Oleg Dorman

Oleg Veniaminovich Dorman is a Russian film director.

He was born in Moscow on March 16, 1967, into the family of the well-known film director Veniamin Dorman.

In 1983, he applied to Marlen Khutsiev’s workshop at VGIK, but was not accepted because of his age and enrolled in the correspondence department of the screenwriting workshop of S. Lungin and L. Golubkina.

After serving in the Army, he transferred to the full-time screenwriting department (workshop of V. Chernykh and L. Kozhinova), and then to M. Khutsiev’s directing workshop, from which he graduated with honors in 1993.

He worked as an assistant editor at the Gorky Film Studio. He published radio plays, translations of English-language prose (the translation of Woody Allen’s prose in Inostrannaya Literatura No. 1, 2001; the collection of Woody Allen’s stories Without Feathers; and the collection of Woody Allen’s plays Riverside Drive) and dramaturgy, as well as articles on film (in particular, an article on M. M. Khutsiev, a note on V. I. Yusov, published in Ekra n i stsena, an article on S. L. Lungin in the newspaper Russkaya Mysl, and memoirs about Mikael Tariverdiev for the book I Just Live).

He translated K. Kieślowski’s master class (published by Kinotsentr and Internyus) and articles about Kieślowski (K. Zanussi’s Farewell, H. Weinstein’s To Drink and Smoke in Los Angeles).

He was a co-author of the music for Marlen Khutsiev’s film Infinity.

He is the author of advertising films.