Years active 1988–2011 Parents Stanislav Govorukhin | Spouse Vera Tsarenko (m. ?–2011) Movies Damned and Forgotten | |
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Born September 1, 1961 ( 1961-09-01 ) Kharkov, USSR Occupation Film director, writer, screenwriter Died 27 October 2011, Moscow, Russia Children Vasiliy Govorukhin, Varvara Govorukhina, Stanislav Govorukhin Jr. Awards Nika Award for Best Documentary | ||
Sergey Stanislavovich Govorukhin (Russian: Серге́й Станисла́вович Говору́хин; September 1, 1961, Kharkiv – October 27, 2011, Moscow) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and writer.
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Biography
Sergey Govorukhin was born on September 1, 1961 in Kharkov in the family of well-known director Stanislav Govorukhin and actress Yunona Kareva. Childhood and adolescence spent in the city of Kazan. In 1988 he graduated from the scriptwriting faculty of VGIK. He worked as a welder, fitter, builder of the Far North, superintendent.
From 1994 to 2005, as a war correspondent took part in the fighting on the territory of Tajikistan, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia. He participated in 20 combat and three special operations. He was awarded several military decorations.
In 1994 he started shooting a film about modern warfare in Russia. In February 1995 in Grozny, while returning from the shooting was shot by Chechen fighters and was shot, which led to the amputation of his leg. His first artistic and journalistic film "Damned and forgotten" in collaboration with Inna Vaneeva.
In 1996 he created the Regional public organization of disabled veterans of inter-regional conflicts in Tajikistan and Chechnya. He held the post of chairman of the veterans and the disabled fund armed conflict "Rokada".
Member of the Writers' Union and the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Leader Film Company "Epilogue". He was a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights.
Author collections of prose "Footy mainland", "No one but us ...", "With me or without me", "Transparent forest under Luxembourg", a number of publications in the national press and magazines.
He died on October 27, 2011 at the age of 50 years. The cause of death was a stroke, which after few days Govoruhin comatose. He was buried on October 29 Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow.