CREW LIST | DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT AND INTERVIEW

DIrector Andrei Kravchuk was born in 1962 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). His mother was a doctor, his father a navy engineer. In 1984 he graduated cum laude from the Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematics and mechanics. In 1996 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television, where he studied feature and documentary filmmaking. Shortly thereafter he began his career as a documentary filmmaker and a director of television series, collaborating regularly with screenwriter and director Yuri Feting. Italianetz (The Italian) is his feature-film directorial debut. He is now working as a director on a feature film about admiral Alexandr Kolchak (1873- 1920), one of the leaders of The White Russians during the Civil War with the Bolsheviks.

FILMOGRAPHY
(as director, unless otherwise noted)
2005 Mify Moego Detstva (Myths of My Childhood) ­ screenplay, together with Yuri Feting
2005 Italianetz (The Italian)
2004 Gospoda Ofitsery (Officers)
TV miniseries
2003 Ilya Averbakh. Obratnaya Tochka (Ilya Averbakh. Reverse Point)
documentary, in the “Filmmaker: Profession and Fate” series
2002 Chernyi Voron (Black Raven)
2002 Semyon Aranovich. Poslednii Kadr (Semyon Aranovich. The Final Shot)
documentary, in the “Filmmaker: Profession and Fate” series
2001 Sutenyor (The Pimp) ­ episode, Agent Natsional’noi Bezopasnosti (Agent of National Security),
TV miniseries
2000 Rozhdestvenskaya Misteriya (Christmas Mystery)
together with Yuri Feting
1999 Delo chesti (A Matter of Honor)
episode of Ulitsa razbitykh fonarei (Streets of Broken Streetlights) TV series ­together with Yuri Feting (screenwriting and directing)
1999 Marlen Shpindler (Marlen Spindler)
documentary (screenwriting and directing)
1997 Tamozhnya (Customs)
documentary (screenwriting and directing)
1996 Vecher i Utro (Evening and Morning)
screenwriting and directing
1994 Deti v Strane Reform (Children in the Country of Reforms)
documentary (screenwriting and directing)
1993 Otbleski i Teni (Reflections and Shadows)
screenwriting and directing
1992 Indonesiia ­ lubov’ moya (Indonesia, My Love)
screenwriting and directing