Victor Ginzburg (director)

Victor Lvovich Ginzburg (Russian: Виктор Львович Гинзбург) is an American director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films, commercials and music videos.

Ginzburg's first feature-length documentary The Restless Garden (1993)[1] was filmed in Moscow in 1991 and documented the cultural and sexual revolution taking place during the fall of the Soviet Union.

"Director and co-writer Victor Ginzburg serves a vital cocktail that suggests a mix of “Brazil,” David Mamet's media-spin satires, rabbit-hole tales and theme comedies such as “How to Succeed in Advertising,” along with a dominant Russian gene that keeps things fresh and unique."

Anita Katz, The San Francisco Examiner[4] "Director Victor Ginzburg's Generation P gives phantasmagoric treatment to an alternate (but not necessarily inaccurate) history of the Putin moment."

Director Victor Ginzburg takes the audience on a long, strange trip through the minefield of 21st century Russia, juxtaposing elements of absurdist comedy, underground crime thriller and – in several hilariously imagined psychedelic scenes – the mysterious quests of Andrei Tarkovsky."

Steve Dollar, The Wall Street Journal[8] “For nearly two ferociously entertaining hours, Ginzburg piles on hallucinogenic tour de forces… "Generation P" is a journey to the rotten, violent, media/ power center of a country whose struggle to define its identity is corroded into a sinister advertising campaign...” Vadim Rizov, IndieWire[9] “Generation P is sprawling entertainment, visually inventive and paced with diabolical assurance by director Victor Ginzburg.” Cary Casey, Movie Magazine[10] “Expatriate director Victor Ginzburg's thrilling initial feature film has been seen by more than a million of his countrymen.

The movie is definitely a successful adaptation of the novel...It manages, through the means of cinema, to convey this unique atmosphere, especially in the esoteric scenes where the hero seeks to find the meaning of his existence and to become part of something on "another" level" Dimitar Kabaivanov, FIPRESCI[16] "This film is a little bit Matrix; by way of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an early 1990s version of Mad Men, some Being John Malkovich, Fight Club, Thank You For Smoking and a little bit of both Eyes Wide Shut and The Lord of the Rings films thrown in for good measure.