The Dancer’s Time : Prix du meilleur scénario au concours « zerkalo » consacré au centenaire du cinéma, 1996
Prix Nika du meilleur scénario, 1997
Premier prix au Festival "Kinotavr", 1998
Magnetic Storms : Prix de la meilleure réalisation au Festival Pacific Meridian de Vladivostok, 2003
Planets’ Parade : "Plateau d'or" de la meilleure réalisation au Festival de Avellino, 1985
Servant : Prix du Jury Oecuménique au Festival de Berlin, 1989
Prix Nika du meilleur scénario, 1989
Biography
Born in 1945 in Kharkov. Studied at the Alma-Ata technical school of
railroad transport (1959—1961), in the Moscow institute of physics
and technology (1961—1964). Graduated from MHTI (1967) and the
directors’ department of VGIK (1974, started to study with M.Romm,
then studied with L.Kulidzhanov). With the course movie «Stop
Potapov!» he defended the diploma and finished the institute a year
earlier. Since 1974 he is a director at «Mosfilm» Studio. A teacher at
VGIK (head of the class of fiction film direction). Merited worker of
arts of the Russian Federation (1987). Winner of the Lenin komsomol
prize (1979). Winner of the Vasiliev Brothers state prize of the
Russian Federation (1984). Winner of the state prize of the USSR
(1988). Winner of the «Golden Oven» prize (1997) and «Nika» (2003).