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Victor Kossakovsky is a renowned Russian documentarian, the winner of more than one hundred awards and the filmmaker whose films are presented this year at ZagrebDox in a retrospective programme. Kossakovsky is the director, writer and often the cinematographer and editor of his films. In 1978 he began working at the Leningrad Studio for Documentary Film as an assistant DoP, assistant director and editor. In 1988 he finished the College for Film Writer and Directors in Moscow. He started his own film production company in St. Petersburg, Kossakovsky Film Production, with the objective of creating a cinema of poetry and reality. Characterised by subtle humour and refined sense of drama, his intimate films surprise and engage the viewers. Kossakovsky gladly shares his rich experience with the audience and his performances are just as vivid and intriguing as his films.