In the photo, Ilya Naishuller looks like an intelligent, educated, stylish and rather attractive young man. For some reason, many are surprised by this, because after getting acquainted with his work, they expect to see a unkempt and gloomy guy in his 60s, mired in video games.
Personal data
Full name: Naishuller Ilya Viktorovich.
Occupation: director, producer, screenwriter, musician, actor.
Place of birth: Moscow.
Date of birth: 1983-19-11.
Marital status: married to Daria Charusha.
Zodiac sign: Scorpio.
Origin
The surname Naishuller is indeed his real surname, since his own father bears exactly the same. This is a surname of Jewish origin and is translated from Yiddish as "new synagogue". Russian, German and Jewish blood flows in Ilya's veins.
His father, Viktor Naishuller, started his career as an emergency anesthesiologist. 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 property was the B altschug cooperative. In the same 1998became 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.
Viktor Naishuller is a fairly we althy man and could fully provide for his son 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 most necessary things. Apparently, studying in London was also considered a necessity.
Childhood and youth
There are many white spots in the biography of Ilya Naishuller. He also deliberately casts a veil of mystery on his childhood, and little is known about him. Until the age of 14, he studied at a London school, thanks to which he speaks English on the same level as Russian, and can think in any of these languages.
The desire to be involved in the creation of cinema was inspired by the films about James Bond. He also loved to play high-quality video games, which later reflected on the special style of his video work and love for shooting from the first person.
Returning to Moscow at the age of 14, Ilya graduated from the British Private School and entered the Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting. But, disappointed in Russian higher education, he left it. He decided that a part-time job at the Mosfilm studio would teach him more. Later, he went to New York for education, but decided that this was a waste of time. Therefore, Ilya Naishuller still does not have a diploma of higher education.
After returning to his homeland, he founded the Biting Elbows group with a friend and began to studydirecting and filming videos. What he did well without higher education.
Biting Elbows
This group was created by Naishuller himself and his friend Ilya Kondratiev in 2008. She performed punk rock, post-punk, and later indie rock. In addition to Ilya himself, the following musicians were members of the group:
- Ilya Kondratiev (bass guitar, vocals);
- Igor Buldenkov (acoustic guitar);
- Alexey Zamaraev (drums).
Ilya himself played the guitar in the group and performed vocal parts together with Kondratiev and Buldenkov.
2011 year. The group released a disc called Dope Fiend Massacre. The first video for the title song from the album was filmed, which was even in the rotation of the A-ONE channel. In September 2011, a video for the song The Stampede was filmed, which already had 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 men talk about", the second part of the film "What men talk about".
2012 year. The band is the opening act for the iconic Guns N' Roses and Placebo.
2013 year. A video for the song Bad Motherfucker was filmed. 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 has 6 clips for 2017, 5 of which were shot by Naishuller himself. And for LightDespondent was directed by Lado Kvatania, best known for the short film The First.
Film work
Before his main success in cinema, the film "Hardcore", Ilya Naishuller did not make feature films, only clips, TV series and short films. 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".
One-minute short film about the Great Patriotic War The Medic stands apart in his career. This work is completely out of his style. The sixty-second short film was shot in black and white war film style. A touching story tells about a hero, a doctor by education, and military realities.
In 2018, the horror series Karamora is planned to be released, 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. The only difference is that the action takes place in an alternate reality where vampires exist.
In the same 2018, the Russian comedy "I'm losing weight" will be released, where he will act as one of seven producers.
His idol as a director is the incomparable Quentin Tarantino, and his motives are easily seen in his video work.
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 fantasy thriller. Along with Naishuller, the script was written by the famous Timur Bekmambetov, whofamous for making action movies of the highest quality. Filmed in the style of imitation of frames from a computer game and in the first person almost entirely on a GoPro Hero 3 action camera.
Famous actors, both Russian and American, are involved in the film. Only at the end is it found out that the main character is played by Naishuller himself. Although he plays, this is loudly said: the camera in the scenes of the main character Henry, in addition to Ilya himself, was carried by Sergey Valyaev, Andrey Dementiev and several stuntmen in risky scenes. But in the shots where Henry looks in the mirror, you can still see Naishuller himself.
At an initial cost of $2 million, the film grossed $14 million, $9 million of which was in the US. The composer in the film was the director's wife Daria Charusha. The Russians first saw the film in April 2016. As the director himself admits, he believes that his big score is yet to come.
Clips
After the success of the film "Hardcore" proposals to shoot videos for Ilya Naishuller poured down. One of the most popular pop bands of our time, The Weeknd, made an order to shoot a video for their song False Alarm in the style of the film "Hardcore". The video was well received by the general public. For a year, the clip has accumulated 76 million views on YouTube. Many parodies have been filmed.
Another well-known customer for Naishuller's clips is the leader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov. They met on the set of Hardcore, where Shnurov played a cameo role. Clips "Kolshchik" and"Voyage" shocks with its 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" was never shown on Russian TV channels due to the huge number of scenes of outright cruelty. But, despite this, he collected a bunch of awards, including for the "Best Music Video of the Year" at Berlin Music Video, for winning the design and advertising festival D & AD, Entertainment for Music at the Cannes Lions and for winning the nomination "Best visual effects" at the UK Music Video Awards.
Private life
In 2010, Ilya married actress and singer Daria Charusha, who is three years older than him. For her, this is the second marriage, but she has no children. Perhaps they will never have children, since Ilya, in his last interview with sports journalist Yuri Dudyu, said that so far he does not plan children at all. The acquaintance happened a year before the wedding on the set of the films "You and I".
The wife of Ilya Naishuller has been actively acting in films since 2003, she has 58 roles in films and TV series behind her. Since 2015 she has been working with the Gazgolder label and performs as a singer under the pseudonym Charusha.
Despite the fact that blood flows like water in his videos and films, Ilya admits that if he understands that the blood is real, then he is also unpleasant and disgusted to see it, like any normal person. He does not perceive blood in his video works as real.
FreeIlya Naishuller prefers to watch high-quality films, listen to music, prefers British music, and reads a lot. Due to such hobbies, the lack of higher education did not affect the erudition and intellectual abilities of Ilya Naishuller. In his interviews, he gives the impression of a rather educated person with excellent taste.
