Aleksandr Zarkhi

Born 5 February 1908 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire

Died 27 January 1997 (aged 88)

Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR. Hero of Socialist Labour. 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.