Faculty Bio
Education
VGIK Film Schools (All State Institute of Kino)
Biography
M.F.A., State Institute of Cinema, Moscow. Writer, Director. At the
Leningrad Film Studio, Lenfilm, directed feature films A Diary of a
School Principal (1975) and A Melodrama of One Family (1976). His third
film, The Errors of Youth (1978), was banned by Soviet censors. In
1989, was invited to Leningrad to finish The Errors of Youth. It was
shown at the New Directors, New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern
Art in New York. It was also part of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes
Film Festival in 1989 and was screened at theLondon and Edinburgh Film
Festivals. In 1991, scripted, coproduced, and directed the feature film
Black & White. It was shown at Sundance Film Festival, Utah; Rimini
Film Festival, Italy, where it received second prize; and Mannheim Film
Festival, Germany, where it received the Public Prize. In 1993,
scripted and directed the feature film Viva Castro! Currently shooting
(directing and co-writing) TV movie "Undecover" for Russian TV, also
starting June - in pre-production for feature film "Crime and Weather"
NTV-production (writer-director).
