Biography
Andrei Kravchuk is a Russian director with a unique creative handwriting, which is characterized by thoughtful immersion in the material. In the artistic cinema he came from documentary, this is due to the choice of those who are interested in the director. Now the master of epic crafts is not in a hurry to deploy new stories before the audience, but the next film makes the public talk and argue about him.Childhood and youth
Andrei Kravchuk was born in Leningrad on April 13, 1962. Fate propheted him a brilliant career in science and could not and assume that in the future Andrei Yuryevich decides to devote himself to a creative profession. I did not know this until the time before the time and Kravchuk himself: he honored his studies at the Leningrad State University at the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty in 1984.
Immediately after this, the young man entered the graduate school, and soon began to prepare to protect his own candidate dissertation. Everything changed after Andrei Kravchuk accidentally met Alexey German. The latter suggested a friend to act as an assistant director when creating the film "We are going to America", who removed the Efim Mushrooms.
This incident, which could be unbeliving for anyone else, forced Andrei to seriously think about the future. Fascinated by the world of cinema, he stopped dreaming about a scientific career and passed the entrance exams at the St. Petersburg University of Show and Television.
Films
After graduating from the University, Andrei Kravchuk became an employee of the Studio "Lenfilm". At first, he specialized mainly on documentaries and in short films. Later, the director confessed that this period of creative career was helpful: he taught him to create artistic images on the basis of real life.The most famous documentary picture of Kravchuk was a film called "Semen Aranovich. Last frame. " Film lasts 38 minutes and talks about the life and work of the director and actor Seeds Davidovich Aranovich, from whom Andrei Yuryevich studied at St. Petersburg University of Show and Television.
Another important experience for the director during this period of creative biography was to participate in the creation of popular Russian TV series. Kravchuk was practiced to implement the creative potential on the TV series "Black Raven", "Streets of broken lamps", "National Security Agent".
Along the way, Kravchuk worked as a scenario over some paintings. Initially, these were documentary projects that Andrei worked as a director. Then art films appeared in the wizard's piggy bank. Together with Yuri Feting, he participated in the creation of the "Christmas Mystery" paintings and myths of my childhood, which they saw the light in the early 2000s.
In 2005, a new milestone began in the history of the directorial research of Andrei Kravchuk. He removed the feature film called "Italian". The main character of this film - a boy who is trying to find a native mother by all means. The tape was presented at the Berlin Film Festival, awarded several prizes and even nominations for Oscar.
The next important in the director's career of Andrei Kravchuk was the creation of the film "Admiral", which came to the screens in 2008. The tape tells about the difficult fate of the difficult personality - Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, who headed the White Movement during the Civil War. Konstantin Khabensky and Elizabeth Boyars played the main roles in the film.
Despite numerous criticism, the film enjoyed rabid popularity and even became second in Russian film distribution in 2008.
The director's projects appear in Russian box office rarely, and the next film Andrei Kravchuk came out soon - in 2016. We are talking about the Kinokartina "Viking", released under the curtain of the outgoing year. This is a tape dedicated to the difficult fate of a bright personality - Prince Vladimir.
The film was created based on the "Tale of Bygone Years". The picture received ambiguous reviews: on the one hand, the audience liked her naturalism, on the other - did not like the presentation of the Grand Duke not in the most visible light.
Personal life
Andrei Kravchuk holds his personal life in secret, so his personal photos do not appear in "Instagram". It is known that the spouse of the director is the name of Elizabeth, in the profession she is a porcelain. Couple brought up two sons, Nikita and Fedor.
Andrei Kravchuk now
In the news the name of the director appears infrequently, but in 2019 he made it talk about himself in connection with the premiere of a new project "Union of Salvation". The historical film is devoted to the topic of the uprising, which was headed by the members of the secret political society of the Decembrists.For a new work in your filmography, the filmmaker collected a first-class acting team on the same site, where Leonid Bichevin, Maxim Matveyev, Pavel Siluchny, Ivan Yankovsky, Anton Shagin, Alexander Domogarov and many others.
Filmography
- 1999 - "Streets of broken lamps - 2"
- 2000 - "Christmas Mysteries"
- 2001 - "Streets of broken lamps - 3"
- 2001 - "National Security Agent - 3"
- 2001-2004 - "Black Raven"
- 2004 - "Lord officers"
- 2005 - "Myths of My Childhood"
- 2005 - "Italian"
- 2008 - "Admiral"
- 2016 - "Viking"
- 2019 - "Salvation Union"