Chadin Sergey Alexandrovich

Chadin Sergey Alexandrovich

Cinematographer. Born on July 16, 1938, in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo region, in a family of civil servants. After graduating from high school in Frunze in 1957, he worked as a driller in a geological exploration team and as a fang worker at the "Progress" factory in the village of Alamedin.

In 1959, he joined the "Kyrgyzfilm" studio as a camera equipment mechanic, and in 1961, he moved to the position of assistant cameraman. After working on feature films such as "Heat" (1963) by L. Shepitko, "Dzhura" (1964) by A. Bergunker, "The First Teacher" (1965) by A. Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, "White Mountains" (1964) by M. Ubukeev, "Call" (1966, "Tajikfilm") by D. Khabrovitsky, and "Everyone Has Their Own Path" (1967) by M. Kovalev, S. Chadin successfully fulfilled the duties of a second cameraman on the films "The Sky of Our Childhood" (1966) by T. Okeeva, "And No One Else" (1968, "Belarusfilm") by I. Shulman, and "Bow to the Fire" (1972) by T. Okeeva. In 1966, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Culture by correspondence. The artistic maturity and independence of S. Chadin's cinematic thinking are manifested in the documentary films "Outpost" (1968), "Absolute Age" (1969), "My Tursun-Apa" (1970, "Kyrgyztelefilm"), "A Happy Man" (1972), "The Peak of Friendship" (1972), "Archa" (1974), "People's Guard" (1975), and others. His color film essay "Pamir - Krishna of the World" (1969) was awarded the 3rd diploma for best cinematography at the VIII review-competition of cinematographers of Central Asia and Kazakhstan in Alma-Ata in 1969. This film was marked with the "Silver Dolphin" award at the International Film Festival in Tehran (1970).

Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1976.