Russia

Alexei Speshnev began his career as a scriptwriter and in the 1930s, and worked in Kiev, Ukraine and Moscow (Mosfilm). In the early ‘60s, Speshnev taught screenwriting at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), the oldest Moscow Film School. Shortly thereafter, he started making films at Belarusfilm (film production studio in Minsk). Black Sun was his third fiction feature film and the second title in his trilogy dedicated to African and international relationships regarding the politics of the USSR. He passed away in 1994 in Moscow, Russia.

Filmography

Moskva - Genuya (1964)
Tysyacha okon (1968)
Black Sun (1971)
The Night's Chronicle (1972)
Khronika nochi (1973)
Plata za istinu (1978)