In 1968-1970 he studied at the School of Arts at the Leningrad Academy of Arts, in 1976-1981 - at the acting department of the Higher Theater School. Slonova. In 1975-1976 - actor, assistant director at the Saratov Drama Theater. In 1981-1983 - actor of the Theater of Young Spectators under Adolf Shapiro (Riga Youth Theater). In 1983 he graduated from the Riga Conservatory. Jazepa Vitola, then, in 1988 - VGIK. In 1990-1991 worked with producer Tom Ladi (partner of director Coppola). Worked in the film archive at the University of Berkeley (1990), at the TRI-Te studio under Nikita Mikhalkov. In 1991-1992 - Jancharek Productions, Rome, Italy (director and screenwriter (film “Through the Eyes of Clowns” with clown Slava Polunin). In 1993-1996 - East Light Corporation, Moscow (founder and production director). Director and producer of films and numerous television projects "Discovery", MTV, HBO and TV projects for leading television channels in the USA and Russia - First and NTV. Master of the course (teacher) at the First National School of Television and Film at the Russian State University of Design and Technology. Member of the Russian Investigative Committee, Member of the Director's Guild of the Russian Investigative Committee. He was the third husband of actress Margarita Terekhova.