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Rinat Khismatouline

3 films on Movie OTT Β· Active 2014–2020

Rinat Khismatouline is a Rome-based actor of Tatar origin, born November 9, 1973, in Samara, Russia (TMDB), who has built a quietly distinctive career across Italian and European film productions over the past two decades. What's striking is how his path to the screen ran through one of the more unusual academic detours in recent memory β€” he trained first as a director, then pivoted entirely to acting, and somehow got accepted to all four of Russia's most prestigious drama conservatories at the same time (TMDB). He chose GITIS, attending the course run by celebrated director Mark Zakharov, before eventually relocating to Italy and becoming a naturalized citizen. That's a rΓ©sumΓ© that doesn't fit a neat box. His verified screen credits span Italian sports drama, crime comedy, and international action β€” from *La foresta di ghiaccio* (2014) to *All the Devil's Men* (2018) to *A Very Venice Romance* (2023) β€” and his Rotten Tomatoes page shows a range that's honestly pretty wide: *Italian Race* (2016) sits at 88%, while *Brutti e cattivi* (2017) bottomed out at 17% (Rotten Tomatoes). He works. Consistently. Whether that translates into wider recognition beyond Italian genre circles is still an open question.

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About Rinat Khismatouline

Rinat Khismatouline is a Rome-based actor of Tatar origin, born November 9, 1973, in Samara, Russia (TMDB), who has built a quietly distinctive career across Italian and European film productions over the past two decades. What's striking is how his path to the screen ran through one of the more unusual academic detours in recent memory β€” he trained first as a director, then pivoted entirely to acting, and somehow got accepted to all four of Russia's most prestigious drama conservatories at the same time (TMDB). He chose GITIS, attending the course run by celebrated director Mark Zakharov, before eventually relocating to Italy and becoming a naturalized citizen.

That's a rΓ©sumΓ© that doesn't fit a neat box. His verified screen credits span Italian sports drama, crime comedy, and international action β€” from *La foresta di ghiaccio* (2014) to *All the Devil's Men* (2018) to *A Very Venice Romance* (2023) β€” and his Rotten Tomatoes page shows a range that's honestly pretty wide: *Italian Race* (2016) sits at 88%, while *Brutti e cattivi* (2017) bottomed out at 17% (Rotten Tomatoes). He works.

Consistently. Whether that translates into wider recognition beyond Italian genre circles is still an open question.

Early life & background

Rinat Khismatouline was born on November 9, 1973, in Samara, Russia, and is of Tatar origin (TMDB). He pursued directing at the MGUKI University of Moscow, graduating from that faculty in 1994 (TMDB). After completing that degree β€” and this is the part that tends to catch people off guard β€” he decided to retrain as an actor, auditioning for GITIS, the Vakhtangov Theatre Academy, the Schepkin Higher Theatre School, and the Moscow Art Theatre School (MXAT), all four of which offered him a place simultaneously (TMDB). He enrolled at GITIS under director Mark Zakharov's course. Details about his family background or early childhood are not publicly documented.

Career

Khismatouline's screen career didn't really surface in traceable international records until the mid-2010s, though his theatrical training in Moscow β€” and his eventual move to Rome β€” clearly laid groundwork for the kind of multilingual, cross-border work he'd go on to do. His earliest documented film role on record is in *La foresta di ghiaccio* (2014), where he played a character named Laslo, an Italian-language production that signaled the direction his career would take: rooted in Italian cinema, but not confined to it. The year 2016 brought *Italian Race*, in which he appeared as Team Manager β€” the film that, at 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, remains his best-reviewed credit (Rotten Tomatoes). A year later came *Brutti e cattivi* (2017), a crime-comedy in which he played Borush; critics weren't kind (17% on Rotten Tomatoes), though that kind of swing is something working character actors don't always get to avoid. Then *All the Devil's Men* in 2018, an English-language action thriller where he played Ivan β€” a sign that he's not exclusively working within Italian productions and can move between European and American projects, which aligns with what his TMDB profile describes as his working relationship with both European and American film and TV outfits (TMDB). More recent credits include *La mia banda suona il pop* (2020), *Dreams Live in Trees* (2022), and *A Very Venice Romance* (2023), which suggests a steady if not splashy output β€” a character actor's rhythm. Hard to say if any single role has broken him into wider mainstream visibility, but the consistency across nearly a decade of credits tells its own story. No major awards are currently documented in public sources.

Personal life

Khismatouline lives in Rome, Italy, where he has been based following his permanent relocation from Russia after completing his theatrical training in Moscow (TMDB). He is a naturalized Italian citizen of Tatar origin (TMDB). No further details about a spouse, children, or other personal relationships are available in public sources, and we won't speculate beyond what's been documented.

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Filmography

Frequently asked questions

What films is Rinat Khismatouline known for?

Rinat Khismatouline has 3 titles indexed on Movie OTT, including La mia banda suona il pop, Italian Race, The Ice Forest.

How long has Rinat Khismatouline been active?

Rinat Khismatouline's film career on Movie OTT spans from 2014 to 2020 β€” 6 years of work.