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Viktor Kosakovsky was born on July 19, 1961. He worked at the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio as an assistant cameraman, editor, and assistant director. Graduated from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors (workshop of Lev Nikolaev, 1988). He made his debut with the film “Losev” (1989) - a unique documentary portrait of the outstanding Russian idealist philosopher, the last of the great galaxy of Silver Age philosophers Alexei Fedorovich Losev; the film received several awards. The hour-long film “The Belovs” (1992), dedicated to the Russian peasant woman Anna Feodorovna and her brother Mikhail, brought Kosakovsky real international recognition and more than twenty awards in different countries. Multi-figure documentary fresco “Wednesday. 19.7.1961" (1997) represented everyone who was born in Leningrad on the same day as Kosakovsky - one hundred and one people. This co-production of Russia, Germany, England, Finland, France, Denmark, Holland and Sweden, which received the FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin festival and other awards, was shown in cinemas in many countries, like “Belovs”, but in our country it was perceived as denigrating: it turned out, that the generation of 35-year-olds is not at all as prosperous as one might judge from the glossy press.
Kosakovsky’s next two works, “Pavel and Lyalya,” did not go without international and domestic awards. Jerusalem Romance" (1998) and "I Loved You... (Three Romances)" (2000). Laureate of the State Prize, Triumph and Nika awards.
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