Dobrygin earned worldwide recognition after director Alexei Popogrebsky spotted him at a theatre performance and ended up casting him in '' How I Ended This Summer '' ( 2010 ) . Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis , the only other on-screen actor in the film , shared the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival for their roles in the film , shot over three months at a meteorological station on an Arctic island in the Chukchi Peninsula . Dobrygin also won the Best Actor trophy at the 2010 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards for his performance . Following his success ; the media dubbed him " the most famous student in Russia . " Dobrygin 's first English-language movie was '' A Most Wanted Man '' ( 2014 ) , an adaption of a John le Carré novel . Dobrygin portrayed Issa Karpov , a half-Russian , half-Chechen Muslim who flees to Hamburg , where he is targeted as a terrorist by the CIA and German secret service . Dobrygin co-starred with Rachel McAdams , Willem Dafoe and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman , in some of Hoffman 's last scenes
60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
Grigoriy Dobrygin