Mukhtar Gusengadzhiyev
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Mukhtar Gusengadzhiyev | |
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Мухтар Гусенгаджиев | |
| Born | 20 May 1964 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1991–2014 |
| Known for | "Most flexible man in Europe" |
| Notable work | |
Mukhtar Magomedsharipovich Gusengadzhiyev (Russian: Мухтар Магомедшарипович Гусенгаджиев; born 20 May 1964) is a Russian actor of circus, film and television. Master of Yoga.[1]
Gusengadzhiyev was born as a Dargin. He studied at the Izmailovo Circus Studio (1989), the Darginsky Theater Studio (1990–1991), the Roman Theater Studio Raffaello Sanzio (1999–2000), the Cirque du Soleil acting studio (Montreal, 2003).
In 1996, he was declared the most flexible man in Europe at the International Yoga Congress in the Canary Islands. In 1998, Hollywood Broadcasting Company FOX-11 signed a contract to showcase him and record it in the Guinness Book of World Records as The World's Most Flexible Man.[2]
He has performed on the stage of the ZUMANITY Theater of Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He has also appeared in Black Belt and Kung Fu magazines.
On 2 April 2018 Mukhtar was sentenced to 22 years of strict regime with compulsory treatment for pedophilia, the creation and storage of child pornography.[3][4]
Filmography
- Paradise in the Shadow of Sabel (1992) as Prince Nutsal Khan
- Pistol with Muffler (1993) as crazy
- Cirque du Soleil: Solstrom (2003) as lonely prisoner
- Kulagin and Partners (2006) as Nikolay Abayev
- My Prechistenka (2007) as Jamshet
- Platon (2007) as Abdul
- Yeralash (2007) as Wushu fighters
- Tsar (2009) as episode
- Peter the Great: The Testament (2011) as Dowd[5]
- Devil's Pass (2013) as Monster
- The Last of the Magikyans (2014) as Hamlet