Ilya Viktorovich Naishuller (Russian: Илья Викторович Найшуллер; born November 19, 1983) is a Russian film director and musician. He is known for directing the action films Hardcore Henry (2015) and Nobody (2021). He is also the founder of the film production company Versus Pictures and the indie rock band Biting Elbows.
Early life
Naishuller was born in Moscow, the son of a surgeon mother, Tatyana Rusakova, and an "oligarch" businessman father, "one of the richest people in Russia in the early 1990s", Viktor Naishuller, of Jewish background. From the ages of seven to fourteen he lived in London and attended a private school.better source needed
After returning to Russia, he graduated from the British International School (Moscow) in Yasenevo District, Moscow. He dropped out of the All-Russian Research Institute of Television and Radio Broadcasting. He studied at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and met several filmmakers that he would collaborate with later. Naishuller left school to pursue music. He did not complete his higher education.
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"«Папа мной гордится»: как режиссер «Никто» Илья Найшуллер прошел путь от мальчика с хлопушкой до Голливуда".
