Andrei Kravchuk

Andrei Yurievich Kravchuk (; born 13 April 1962 in Leningrad) is a Russian television and film director and screenwriter best known for his films The Italian and Admiral (2008).

Career 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. After graduating, he worked in Russian television, saying, "Television today in Russia is the most accessible path to professional filmmaking." The two started collaborating in 2000 and Kravchuk, who had earlier made a short documentary about orphanages, decided to adapt the story into a film, Italianetz (The Italian).

Personal life Kravchuk's father was a navy engineer and his mother a doctor, and he is married to a designer with two young sons.

Filmography Feature films The Christmas Miracle (2000) The Italian (2005) Admiral (2008) Viking (2016) Union of Salvation (2019) Palmira (2022) Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor (2022)

Television Streets of Broken Lights (1999) National Security Agent (2001) Black Raven (2002) Gentlemen Officers (2004) The Admiral (2009)