About Boris Frumin
Born 1947. Boris Frumin is a Latvian, Russian and American film director and screenwriter.
Boris Moiseevich Frumin (, ; born 24 October 1947) is a Soviet, American and Latvian film director and screenwriter.
Career Frumin's film Errors of Youth was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. His project Siberian Triangle was presented at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival. Frumin is an associate professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he shares his passion for neo-realism and Eastern European film.
Filmography Diary of a School Director (1975) Family Melodrama (1976) Errors of Youth (1978) Black and White (1992) Viva Castro! (1994) Nelegal (2006) Street Days (2010) Blind Dates (2013) Blizzard of Souls (2019; screenwriter)
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Who is Boris Frumin?
Latvian film director and screenwriter (born 1947)
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Boris Frumin was born on 24 October 1947 in Riga.
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Boris Frumin is a film director and screenwriter.
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Boris Frumin is Latvian, Russian and American.
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