Alexander Gutman

Alexander Gutman ( _ru. Александр Гутман (born 1945), also spelt as Alexandre Goutman and Aleksandr Gutman) is a Russian film director. During over 30 years he has shot over 50 documentary films, 13 of them as film director. A winner ov numerous awards at Russian and international film festivals.

He graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute (now known as St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University) (1968) and VGIK (1978).

Filmography

*"Journey Back to Youth"
*"Frescoes " [http://www.swashers.com/files_eng/pages_Films/AlexGutman.html] , [http://wbff.org/films/detail.asp?fid=279] , about Armenia (presented at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival)
*"Blatnoi mir" ("Thieves' World") (2001) ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373728/ IMDB] )
*"Tri dnya i bolshe nikogda" ("Three Days and Never Again") (1998) Grand Prix at the Stalker Film Festival in Moscow ( [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0329696/ IMDB] )
*"V poiskakh shchastya " ("In Search of Happiness") (2005), follows the lives of two Jewish settlers to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast during 1934
*"The Russians Have Gone" (Russkiye ushli, 1991),
*"1244, 1245, 1246" (1994)
*"Up to the Neck or Bodybuilding" (Telo bez golovy ili bodibilding, 1996)
*"The Sunny Side of the Road" (Solnechnaya storona trassy, 2004)