Andrei Yurievich Kravchuk (russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Кравчу́к; born 13 April 1962 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) is a Russian

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

and film director and screenwriter best known for his films '' The Italian'' (2005) and '' Admiral'' (2008).

Career

Kravchuk had almost completed his

master's A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

thesis in mathematics when he met filmmakers Aleksei German and

Vladimir Vengerov Vladimir Yakovlevich Vengerov (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Венгеров; 1920–1997) was a Soviet film director. He directed fourteen films between 1951 and 1985. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1978). His 1962 film '' A Tri ...

and German found him a job as an assistant to director Yefim Gribov shooting ''We Are Going to America'' in 1992. By the end of filming, Kravchuk had decided to give up mathematics and become a filmmaker, and he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television. After graduating, he worked in Russian television, saying, "Television today in Russia is the most accessible path to professional filmmaking." Between 1992 and 2001, he wrote and directed: the films ''Indonesiia – lubov’ moya'' (''Indonesia, My Love''), ''Otbleski i Teni'' (''Reflections and Shadows''), ''Vecher i Utro'' (''Evening and Morning'') and ''Rozhdestvenskaya Misteriya'' (''The Christmas Miracle''); the documentaries ''Deti v Strane Reform'' (''Children in the Country of Reforms''), ''Tamozhnya'' (''Customs'') and ''Marlen Shpindler''; and episodes of the television series ''Ulitsa razbitykh fonarei'' (''Streets of Broken Streetlights'') and the television miniseries ''Agent Natsional’noi Bezopasnosti'' (''Agent of National Security''). In 2002, he directed the film ''Chernyi Voron'' (''Black Raven'') and the documentary ''Semyon Aranovich: Poslednii Kadr'' (''Semyon Aranovich: The Final Shot''), which was a tribute to documentary filmmaker

Semyon Aranovich Semyon Davidovich Aranovich (Russian: Семён Дави́дович Арано́вич, 23 July 1934, Derazhnya, Ukraine, Soviet Union – 8 September 1996, Hamburg, Germany) was a Soviet and Russian film director. Life and career Arano ...

, whom he had learnt under at the Institute of Cinema and Television. When the Russian economy collapsed in 1999 and many orphaned children were forced to live on the streets, screenwriter Andrei Romanov approached Kravchuk with a newspaper article about an orphan who taught himself to read so he could find his birth mother. The two started collaborating in 2000 and Kravchuk, who had earlier made a short documentary about orphanages, decided to adapt the story into a film, ''Italianetz'' ('' The Italian'').

Personal life

Kravchuk's father was a navy engineer and his mother a doctor, and he is married to a designer with two young sons.

Filmography

;Feature films * ''

The Christmas Miracle ''The Christmas Miracle'' () is a 2000 Russian romantic drama film directed by Yury Feting and Andrei Kravchuk, starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Chulpan Khamatova. It has a fairy-tale narrative about a couple who reunite at Christmas after many ye ...

'' (2000) * '' The Italian'' (2005) * '' Admiral'' (2008) * ''

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

'' (2016) * ''

Union of Salvation The Union of Salvation ( rus, Союз спасения, Sojuz spasenyja), formed in 1816, also known as the Society of True and Loyal Sons of the Fatherland (russian: Общество истинных и верных сынов отечеств� ...

'' (2019) * '' Palmira'' (2022) * '' Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor'' (2022) ;Television * '' Streets of Broken Lights'' (1999) * ''National Security Agent'' (2001) * ''Black Raven'' (2002) * ''Gentlemen Officers'' (2004) * ''The Admiral'' (2009)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kravchuk, Andrei 1962 births Living people Russian film directors Mass media people from Saint Petersburg Russian people of Ukrainian descent Recipients of the Nika Award Russian screenwriters Male screenwriters