Aleksandr Zarkhi

Aleksandr Zarkhi
Born
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi

(1908-02-18)18 February 1908
Died27 January 1997(1997-01-27) (aged 88)
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1928–1986

Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Зархи; 18 February 1908 27 January 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Hero of Socialist Labour (1978).

His film Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981.