Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin PAR has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films, often featuring detective or adventure plots, are commonly dominated by strong male characters who seek to revenge criminal acts but have to eschew commonly accepted social norms in order to succeed. Govorukhin was born in Berezniki, Sverdlovsk Oblast and started his career as a geologist in 1958. He then joined a television studio in Kazan and enrolled at the VGIK. During the Soviet period, Govorukhin became noted for his successful TV adaptations of adolescent classics, including Robinson Crusoe, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, In Search of the Castaways, and Desyat Negrityat in 1987. He also directed two movies starring Vladimir Vysotsky - Vertical and The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, one of the cult films of the late Soviet era. After the Perestroika, Govorukhin abandoned cinema for politics. He became one of the leaders of the Democratic Party of Russia. In 1990, he directed a much-publicised documentary highly critical of the Soviet society, entitled We Can't Live Like This. Although his feature films were previously ignored by the critical establishment, this film won him the Nika Award for Best Director. It was at that time that Govorukhin released an extensive interview with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Wikipedia [ - ]

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