Born in Siberia in 1960.
Completed studies at Odessa Polytechnic in 1982 and subsequently
graduated from the advanced course in screenwriting and directing at
Moscow Film School VKSR in Evgenij’s Tashkov’s master class.
Winner of the national film
awards “Nika” (2001, 2004, 2015) and “Golden Eagle” (2004).
Winner of the Government of the Russian Federation Award
(2005). In 2008 he was an artistic director of the feature film “No
One except Us” (director Sergei Govorukhin). He was a co-writer
and co-producer of the feature film “Ivan the Son of Amir” (2013 by Maxim Panfilov.
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