Roman Romanovich Kachanov (; born 17 January 1967) is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is a film director and screenwriter of the films Demobbed, Down House, Tumbler, Arie, Gena Concrete and others. According to polls by the magazine “Afisha” and the blogging platform “LiveJournal”, his films belong to the 100 important Russian films and 100 best films of all time in the Russian language. Early life and education Roman was born on 17 January 1967 in Moscow, USSR. He began to work at the age of 14: first as a postman and later as a literature assistant to the writer Kir Bulychov. In 1982-1984, while going to night school, he attended a course of direction as an auditing student at the High Courses for Film Directors. In 1984, he enrolled in the faculty of script writing at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), entered the course of K. K. Paramonova. In the same year, he published the story "The Miracles of Technology" in the VGIK newspaper "The Way to the Screen", since then his writing career began. In 1985, at the animation studio "Soyuzmultfilm", a cartoon "The Miracles of Technology" was based on this story. Then Kachanov wrote the words to the song "Paper Dove" (composer Vladimir Shainsky). In 1987, he wrote the play "Karpusha".. A cartoon of the same name was based on this play at Soyuzmultfilm in 1988. Later, a book based on it was published. As a writer, Kachanov mainly works under the name R. Gubin in order not to be confused with his father, Roman Kachanov. In 1988, he wrote the script for Ivan Okhlobystin's short film debut "Nonsense. The story about nothing". Kachanov studied on the same course with Renata Litvinova and Arkady Vysotsky. On the parallel course Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksandr Bashirov, Ivan Okhlobystin, Tigran Keosayan, Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Rashid Nugmanov were studying at that time at the Directing Faculty. Kachanov subsequently continued friendship and cooperation with many of them. He graduated from VGIK in 1989. Career 1990s In 1991, he made a film "Don't ask Me about the Thing". The film starred Juozas Budraitis, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Nina Ruslanova, Natalya Krachkovskaya, including some young actresses – Irina Feofanova, Maryana Polteva. Due to the economic difficulties, which appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the film premiered only in 1995. Critics classify the film as "physiological cinema": According to