Date of Birth:

Aug 12, 1948 (78 years)

Place of Birth:

Tbilisi, Georgia SSR, USSR

Biography:

He graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in 1986 and Higher Directing Courses in 1988. He taught directing at the St. Petersburg Academy of Culture in 1990-96. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR (accepted in 1991), member of the Union of Russian Writers (accepted in 2002).