Victor Eduardovich Matizen (; born February 19, 1949,

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) is a Soviet and Russian film critic, president of the

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(2003–2011), chairman of the Council of Film Award

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, curator of the site of the Guild kinopressa.ru. He graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of

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with a degree in Probability Theory in 1970. Laureate of the Golden Aries Award, the State Film Fund of the Russian Federation and the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics. He joined the

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in 1991, but in March 2009, at a meeting of filmmakers in Gostiny Dvor, he was expelled from him for criticizing the leadership of the union headed by

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, being the only one expelled from this organization in the post-Soviet period. In March 2014 signed the letter, ''We Are With You!'' In support of

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. In March 2022, Matizen signed a collective appeal of film critics, film historians and film journalists of Russia against

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matize, Victor 1949 births Living people Writers from Saint Petersburg Russian film critics Novosibirsk State University alumni Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni