Andrey Kravchuk

Biography

Andrei Yurievich Kravchuk (Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Кравчу́к; born 13 April 1962; Leningrad) is a Russian television and film director and screenwriter best known for his films The Italian (2005) and Admiral (2008). Kravchuk had almost completed his master's thesis in mathematics when he met filmmakers Aleksei German and Vladimir Vengerov and German found him a job as an assistant to director Yefim Gribov shooting We Are Going to America in 1992. By the end of filming, Kravchuk had decided to give up mathematics and become a filmmaker, and he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Institute of Cinema and Television. After graduating, he worked in Russian television, saying, "Television today in Russia is the most accessible path to professional filmmaking." Between 1992 and 2001, he wrote and directed: the films Indonesiia – lubov’ moya (Indonesia, My Love), Otbleski i Teni (Reflections and Shadows), Vecher i Utro (Evening and Morning) and Rozhdestvenskaya Misteriya (The Christmas Miracle); the documentaries Deti v Strane Reform (Children in the Country of Reforms), Tamozhnya (Customs) and Marlen Shpindler; and episodes of the television series Ulitsa razbitykh fonarei (Streets of Br…

Directed

1. Viking (2016) — Director
2. Admiral (2008) — Director
3. The Italian (2005) — Director
4. Union of Salvation (2019) — Director
5. Once In The Desert (2022) — Director
6. Streets of Broken Lights (1998) — Director
7. Admiral (2009) — Director
8. Black Raven (2001) — Director
9. Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor (2022) — Director
10. Агент национальной безопасности 3 (2000) — Director
11. The Empresses (2023) — Director
12. The Christmas Miracle (2000) — Director
13. Gentlemen Officers (2004) — Director
14. Rise of the Empire (2026) — Director
15. Battle of Kulikovo — Director
16. Peter I (2023) — Director
17. Empresses (2024) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Viking. To See to Believe (2017)
2. Cinema 3.0 (2023)