Aleksandr Askoldov

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Askoldov (Russian: Александр Яковлевич Аскольдов; born 1932) was a Soviet Russian actor and film director. He graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute. After finishing the advanced directing course he directed his first film, Commissar (1967). The film was banned for more than 20 years and put an end to his career as a director in the USSR. —Wikipedia