Editing Sergei Bodrov Jr. (section)

=== Prisoner of the Mountains ===
In 1995, his father travelled to [[Dagestan]] for the filming of his movie ''[[Prisoner of the Mountains]]''. Bodrov asked to go with him, prepared to do any available work. Unexpectedly, he became one of the featured actors, playing the conscript Vanya Zhilin, partnered with [[Oleg Menshikov]] who played the regular soldier Alexey Ryapolov. Bodrov received an award for best actor jointly with Menshikov at the [[Kinotavr]] cinema festival in [[Sochi]].

Bodrov himself did not claim to be an actor: ''I always say everywhere: I'm not an actor, I'm not an actor, I'm not an actor. And I hear: "No, you're an actor". And I say that an actor is quite a different thing. Actors are different, it's a different temperament. A role for me is not a profession. It's something that you do.<ref name="Sergei Bodrov The Messenger" />''