Andrei Plakhov

After graduating in mechanics and mathematics from Lviv University, he studied history of cinema at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Since the seventies Plakhov wrote articles and reviews for daily and professional press, both Russian and international (Pravda, Iskusstvo Kino, Seans, Sight and Sound, The Guardian, Cahiers du Cinéma, etc.

During Perestroika Plakhov was a secretary of the USSR Union of Cinematographers and a head of the Conflict Committee, which released more than 200 films banned by Soviet censorship.

Plakhov published several books about Soviet and modern world cinema.

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