- Andrei Plakhov is a Russian film critic and film historian, columnist for Kommersant newspaper. Honorary President of the International Federation of Film Critics.
He studied film history at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). In 1982 he defended a Ph.D. thesis about Luchino Visconti. Since the seventies Plakhov wrote articles and reviews for daily and professional press, both Russian and international (Pravda, Iskusstvo Kino, Seans, Sight and Sound, The Guardian, Cahiers du Cinéma, etc.), he currently works as an author of cinema reviews for Kommersant. During Perestroika Plakhov was a secretary of the USSR Union of Cinematographers and a head of the Conflict Committee, which released more than 200 films banned by Soviet censorship. Plakhov published several books about Soviet and modern world cinema.
- IMDb mini biography by: DK
- According to a Sight & Sound magazine poll for 2012, his ten greatest films are: The Damned (1969), The Mirror (1975), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Some Like It Hot (1959), Dogville (2003), L'Eclisse (1962), Red Beard (1965), Amour (2012), Cries & Whispers (1972) and The Rules of the Game (1939).
- According to a Seans magazine poll for 2008, his ten greatest Russian films are: Ballad of a Soldier (1959), Cargo 200 (2007), Days of Eclipse (1988), The Mirror (1975), Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), July Rain (1967), The Cranes Are Flying (1957), My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), Okraina (1933) and Okraina (1998).
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