KONSTANTIN LOPUSHANSKY

Film Director, Scriptwriter

Award-winner at more than 20 international film festivals (including the international "Ecumenical Jury Award" twice, at the Berlinale in 1995, and at the Moscow Film Festival in 1989). Russian State Prize laureate. FIPRESSI laureate.

Lopushansky's first full-length film, "Letters from a Dead Man" ("Briefe eines Toten", "Lettres d'un homme mort), brought him world-wide fame. It was screened at more than 10 international festivals (including Cannes in 1987) and was shown practically all over the world at cinemas and on TV.

Konstantin Lopushansky also writes the scripts for his films. His scripts have been published as literary works in Russia and some European countries.

Lopushansky's films have been screened numerous times on TV, i.e. in France (ARTE), Germany (ZDF), Canada, the USA (TBC), South America, Australia, the U.K. and Eastern Europe. Retrospectives of Lopushansky's films were held in cinemas in Germany (1995 and 1996), France (1997) and Belgium (1997).