Aleksandrs Petukhovs (born 1967) is a Latvian screenwriter and film director. Petukhovs was born in Riga, Latvia. He studied film at the National Filmschool VGIK in Moscow. He worked as a film critic for the daily newspaper Pravda. In the 1990s he emigrated to Poland and became assistant director of Baranowski, Kieślowski and Polański. His 2004 film The Last Soviet Movie was selected for the European Film Award. Films The Last Soviet Movie (2003) Gagarin's Dead (1991) - a short documentary Brezhniev's Foot (1990) - short Stalin's Fist (1989) - short Che Che Che (1988) - short External links 1967 births Living people Film people from Riga Latvian film directors Latvian screenwriters