Then, his father, Adolf Fradis,[1] worked at the same studio since 1933, as UPM and executive producer of the Russian films Mysterious Island, Tanker Derbent and The Shooting Party.
In 1966, his entire family moved to Moscow, where Fradis graduated in 1970 from the Schepkin Drama School and later from the High Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors.
He promoted primarily Eastern European films and live shows from the former USSR, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia and toured them throughout the US, Canada and Western Europe.
Fradis was instrumental in bringing American motion pictures for private distribution in the USSR, including Rambo – First Blood, Gone with the Wind, Wanted Dead or Alive, Stella, and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
For more than fifteen years AFRA-FILM and MOSFILM/USA were arranging and coordinating Mosfilm's efforts in Cannes, Milan and Los Angeles during respective film festivals and markets.
Fradis produced two films during 1992 to 1993 in partnership with Roger Corman's Concord-New Horizons, Haunted Symphony and Burial of the Rats, as well as, in 1994, an action-thriller Beyond Forgiveness for Showtime/Nu Image.
In November 2014, Fradis brought the Jewish Theater from Warsaw, Poland to tour their show Masel Tov in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia.