Aleksandrs Petukhovs (born 1967) is a Latvian
screenwriter and
film director.
Petukhovs was born in
Riga,
Latvia. He studied film at the National Filmschool
VGIK
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning
''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...
in
Moscow
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. He worked as a
film critic
Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outl ...
for the daily newspaper ''
Pravda
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''. In the 1990s he emigrated to
Poland
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and became assistant director of
Baranowski,
Kieślowski and
Polański. His 2004 film ''
The Last Soviet Movie'' was selected for the European Film Award.
Films
*''
The Last Soviet Movie'' (2003)
*''
Gagarin's Dead'' (1991) - a short documentary
*''
Brezhniev's Foot'' (1990) - short
*''
Stalin's Fist'' (1989) - short
*''
Che Che Che'' (1988) - short
External links
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1967 births
Living people
Film people from Riga
Latvian film directors
Latvian screenwriters
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