In the photo, Ilya Naishuller looks like an intelligent, well-mannered, stylish and rather attractive young man. For some reason, many are surprised at this, because after getting to know his work, they expect to see a groomed and gloomy guy of about 60, mired in video games.
Personal data
Full name: Naishuller Ilya Viktorovich.
Occupation: director, producer, screenwriter, musician, actor.
Place of birth: Moscow.
Date of birth: 11/19/1983.
Marital status: married to Daria Charusha.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Origin
The surname Naishuller is really his real surname, since his own father wears exactly the same. This is a surname of Jewish origin and is translated from Yiddish as the "new synagogue." In the veins of Elijah flows Russian, German and Jewish blood.
His father, Victor Naishuller, began his career as an anesthetist in emergency care. And in 1998, he decided to start a career as a businessman. Engaged in the distribution of video copies on cassettes and disks. His first possession was the Baltschug cooperative. In the same 1998, he became a co-founder of the company "OMS", which is engaged in outsourcing of auxiliary and non-core functions. There he is still involved as the president of the company.
Victor Naishuller is a fairly wealthy man and could fully provide his son with the life of golden youth. But he considered that such a campaign in education would spoil him as a person, and gave him money only for the necessities. Apparently, studying in London was also considered a necessity.
Childhood and youth
In the biography of Ilya Naishuller there are many white spots. In his childhood, he also purposely lets out a fleur of mystery, and little is known about him. Until the age of 14, he studied at a London school, thanks to which he speaks English at the same level as Russian, can think in any of these languages.
The desire to be involved in the creation of cinema was inspired by James Bond films. And he loved to play high-quality video games, which later affected the special style of his video work and his love for first-person shooting.
Returning to Moscow at the age of 14, Ilya graduated from a British private school and entered the Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting. But, disappointed in Russian higher education, threw it. He decided that a part-time job at the Mosfilm film studio would teach him more. Later, for education, he went to New York, but decided that this was a waste of time. Therefore, Ilya Naishuller still does not have a diploma of higher education.
Upon returning to his homeland, he founded a group Biting Elbows with a friend and began to direct and shoot video. What succeeded well without higher education.
Biting elbows
This group was created by Naishuller himself and his friend Ilya Kondratiev in 2008. She performed punk rock, postpunk, and later indie rock. In addition to Ilya himself, the following musicians were members of the group:
- Ilya Kondratiev (bass, vocals);
- Igor Buldenkov (acoustic guitar);
- Alexey Zamaraev (drums).
Ilya himself played the guitar in the group and, together with Kondratyev and Buldenkov, performed vocal parts.
2011. The band released a disc called Dope Fiend Massacre. The first video for the title track from the album, which was even in the rotation of the A-ONE channel, was shot. In September 2011, a video was shot for the song The Stampede, which already has 6.8 million views on YouTube in 2017.
2010 year. The song Light Despondent became the soundtrack to the popular Russian film of 2010 “What else are men talking about, ” the second part of the movie “What men are talking about.”
year 2012. The band is supporting the iconic Guns N 'Roses and Placebo.
year 2013. The video for the song Bad Motherfucker was shot. He just blew up YouTube, at the end of 2017 the clip has 39 million views. The plot of the video is a logical continuation of The Stampede. It was this clip that made Naishuller famous.
Then there were 5 singles, the last of which - Dustbus - was released in 2016. The group exists to this day.
The group for 2017 has 6 clips, 5 of which were made by Naisuller himself. And for Light Despondent, the director was Lado Quatania, known for the short film The First.
Movie work
Prior to his main success in the cinema, the film "Hardcore", Ilya Naishuller did not shoot full-length films, only clips, series and short films. He participated as an actor in 2013 in the film "All at once" and in 2014 in the film "Startup". He was one of the three directors of the series Barvikha.
Special in his career is the minute short film about the Great Patriotic War The Medic. This work is completely not in his style. A sixty-second short film was shot in black-and-white war movie style. A touching story tells of a hero, a medical doctor by education, and military realities.
In 2018, the release of the Karamora series in the horror genre is planned, directed by Naishuller. This series is about a very real period in history, the beginning of the 20th century, when Russia was already on the verge of a revolution. Only with the difference that the action takes place in an alternate reality where vampires exist.
In the same 2018, the Russian comedy “I am losing weight” will be released, where he will be one of seven producers.
His idol as a director is the incomparable Quentin Tarantino, and his motives are easily traced in his video works.
Hardcore
The best of the works of Ilya Naishuller is rightfully considered the film "Hardcore" (2015). He acted in this film as a screenwriter, director and producer. The film was shot in the genre of a fantastic action movie. Along with Naishuller, the script was written by the famous Timur Bekmambetov, who is famous for shooting high-quality action movies. Shot in the style of simulating frames from a computer game and from the first person almost completely on the GoPro Hero 3 action camera.
The film involves famous actors, both Russian and American. Only at the end it becomes known that the main character is played by Naishuller himself. Although he plays, it is said loudly: the camera in the scenes of the protagonist Henry, besides Ilya himself, was worn by Sergey Valyaev, Andrey Dementyev and several stuntmen in risky scenes. But in the frames where Henry looks in the mirror, you can still see Naishuller himself.
At an initial cost of $ 2 million, the film raised $ 14 million, 9 million of which are fees in the United States. The composer in the film was the wife of the director Daria Charusha. The Russians first saw the film in April 2016. As the director himself admits, he believes that his big jackpot is yet to come.
Clips
After the success of the film “Hardcore”, offers to shoot clips for Ilya Naishuller fell down. One of the most popular pop groups of our time, The Weeknd made an order to shoot a clip for their song False Alarm in the style of the movie "Hardcore". The video was well received by the general public. For the year, the clip got 76 million views on the YouTube video. Many skits were filmed.
Another well-known customer of clips from Naishuller is the leader of the Leningrad group Sergey Shnurov. They met on the set of Hardcore, where Shnurov played a cameo role. The clips “Kolshchik” and “Voyage” cause shock by their cruelty, but even an uninitiated person cannot but note that the clips were shot with humor and are not devoid of their special aesthetics.
The clip "Kolshchik" has never been shown on Russian TV channels due to the huge number of scenes of outright brutality. But, despite this, he collected a bunch of awards, including for the “Best Music Video of the Year” on the Berlin Music Video, for winning the D&AD festival of design and advertising, Entertainment for Music at the Cannes Lions and for winning the Best visual effects ”at the UK Music Video Awards.
