Aleksandr Alov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. His 1981 film Teheran 43 won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. After military service in the Great Patriotic War, Alov studied with Igor Savchenko at VGIK, graduating in 1951. He worked as an assistant to Savchenko on the war epic The Third Blow.