Biography of Andrei Kravchuk

Born on April 13 in Leningrad now St. Petersburg. Russian film director, screenwriter. Andrei Kravchuk was born on April 13 in Leningrad now St. Petersburg. In the year, he graduated with honors from Leningrad State University, the faculty of mathematics and mechanics. Then he studied in graduate school and prepared for the defense of the candidate dissertation. His life changed dramatically after meeting Alexei German, who suggested Andrei to work as an assistant director in Efim Gribov’s film “We are going to America”.

After completing the filming, Kravchuk decided to become a filmmaker. In the year he graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television, the workshop of the art and documentary, the workshop of Semen Aranovich. In the university, his creative path from a short meter begins to full -length high -budget works that compete with Hollywood products.

Kravchuk recalled: “I remember how in the year we took off our first training works. There were monstrous frosts in St. Petersburg. The master came from the filming. We showed work in this very hall. Everyone sat in jackets and hats. It was very cold. And then the master smashed us then. He liked only my work. ” At the end of the university, he was enrolled in the staff of Lenfilm.

He began as the author of short and documentary films, the scenarios to which he wrote mainly himself. Subsequently, recalling this period, Kravchuk said that the experience of working in documentaries was useful for him: “It has the opportunity to create an artistic image from the surrounding life.” When in the beginning of the 10ths in honor of the Flight of Lenfilm, the creation of the cycle “Filizer: Profession and Fate” began, the student, in memory of his teacher, shot the minute tape “Semyon Aranovich.

The last frame. " Talented scenarios of young Kravchuk quickly receive recognition and find implementation.

He was not afraid to take on large projects. The next episode of the television series “Streets of Broken Lights”, written and subsequently shot by him in collaboration with Andrei Zhigalov, becomes one of his first works after the victory in the International Student Competition, and immediately is successful. He worked as a director in the series “National Security Agent” and “Black Raven”.

In the year, he presented the feature film “Italian”, which caused a resonance among colleagues in the workshop and nominated to the Oscar award in the nomination “Best Foreign Film”. The tape tells about the fate of a boy who seeks to find his biological mother. In the year, the historical project “Admiral” about the life of a military officer of the Navy was released, subsequently the Admiral, the head of the White movement, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, the Supreme ruler of Russia Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak.

The main roles were played by Konstantin Khabensky and Elizabeth Boyarskaya. The film was included in the five of the most box office tapes of modern Russian cinema. The next directorial success was the historical saga “Viking”, telling about the deeds of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich. The film was based on the events described in the Tale of Bygone Years. According to Andrei Kravchuk, Viking was for him the easiest and most joyful project.

The administrative group has changed twice. Despite the fact that the make -up artists and costumers slept for 4 hours, they just did not faint, there was a joy from the fact that everyone was doing. From the fact that we manage to transform the world around, ”said the director. At the end of the year, Andrei Kravchuk presented the historical tape of the Union of Salvation about the uprising of the Decembrists of the year in the capital of the Russian Empire of St.

Petersburg. Then he took up the shooting of the film “Palmyra”, which combines an action -packed action movie and a powerful human drama. In the center of the plot of the tape of the sappers of the mine clearance detachment, the task of which is to save the Syrian Palmyra from destruction, and with it the oldest monuments of civilization. You must explain to people what you want to get.

It is important that a person understands not words, but the image that is laid in them. Everyone understands to the best of their temperament. It is very important that these are professional and enthusiastic people, artists. At the same time, it is impossible for them to put out the cinema in their direction, ”Kravchuk believes. Any film is based on the plan and on the fact that you find important for yourself in this plan, ”the director noted.

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