birth_place article_title name birth_date
riga , latvia aleksandrs petukhovs
 aleksandrs petukhovs 1967
aleksandrs petukhovs

aleksandrs petukhovs -lrb- born 1967 -rrb- is a screenwriter and film director .
petukhovs was born in riga , latvia .
he studied film at the national filmschool vgik in moscow .
he worked as a film critic for the daily newspaper `` pravda '' .
in the 1990s he emigrated to poland and became assistant director of baranowski , kieślowski and polański .
his 2004 film `` the last soviet movie '' was selected for the european film award .
