Viktor Aristov

Viktor Fyodorovich Aristov (Russian: Виктор Фёдорович Аристов; 9 June 1943 – 2 January 1994; Budyonnovka) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed five films between 1980 and 1994. His 1991 film Satan was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.

He was born on June 9, 1943 in the village of Budyonny of the Kyrgyz SSR. Prior to studying at the Institute, he worked as a stage driver at the Dzhambul Regional Drama Theater, a track worker at the tram and trolleybus department in Leningrad, a senior engineer at the A. Herzen Pedagogical Institute. In 1968, he graduated in absentia from the directing department of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography (LGITMIK). As an assistant, he helped director Ilya Averbakh on the set of the film "Drama from Ancient Life", and as a second director he worked together with Alexey Herman, Sergei Mikaelyan, Joseph Heifitz. In addition, he starred in several films, including Kira Muratova in "Asthenic Syndrome" and "Learning the White World", Igor Maslennikov in "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Bloody inscription", by Sergey Snezhkin in "The Non-Returnee".