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Vova Lert (given name – Vladimir Kohnovich) Film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

Biography
Vladimir Lert was born on June 12, 1979 in Riga. In 1997 he immigrated to the United States.

In 2001 Vladimir Lert enrolls two educational institutions at once: Brooks Institute (English) Ventura, California and International Actors’ School in Los Angeles (the founder Alexander Kuznetsov is known by the film “Jack Vosmyorkin, American”).

Lert begins his career in the film industry as an assistant producer, while working as a second plan actor in shooting of many famous Hollywood movies.

In 2006 Vladimir Lert was invited to Ukraine as a director of series of commercials.

He shoots the film "Rejection", released in summer, 2010.

He prefers not to become attached to a specific country in his work. The director says he is a patriot of planet Earth.

In 2016 he became the author and director of the film “St. Valentine's Night”.

Due to the fact that the originally written script could lead to the failure of the film, Lert decided to shoot for complete improvisation. Texts and events were invented right during the filming process, and replicas were sometimes sent to the actors by SMS. Despite the lack of full-fledged budget and advertising, the film became successful among the audience.

In 2017 «Tevye's Daughters» was released.

Sholem Aleichem's "Tevye's Daughters" is an authentic tragicomedy directed by Vova Lert. The film was shot at the unique historical locations in Ukraine where the original stories of "Tevye the Dairyman" took place. The screenplay is based on the famous play "Memorial Prayer” by Grigori Gorin. This play has been successfully performed for more than thirty years around Eastern Europe. It is the early XX century. Tevye the Dairyman lives in a small village. He is poor and believes that his daughters have one chance to escape poverty – a successful marriage. Tevye accepts a profitable proposition from a matchmaker, but his beautiful daughters have a different plan.

The director

 * 2009 — Rejection
 * 2013 — Captive
 * 2016 — St. Valentine's night
 * 2017 — Tevye's Daughters

Writer

 * 2009 — Rejection
 * 2013 — Captive
 * 2017 — Tevye's Daughters

Selective videography

 * Scenario — "Aircraft"(2006)
 * Bogdan Titomir — "Do as I do" (2007)
 * Bogdan Titomir — "Superstar" (2008)
 * Boombox — "Alone" (2009)
 * Boombox & PianoBoy — "Floors" (2011)
 * Stas Piekha — "We broke up with you" (2011)
 * Boombox - "Sandals" (2011)
 * Boombox — "Get out!" (2011)
 * Vitas & Xenon — "I Would Be in the Sky" (2012)
 * Valery — "I'll wait for you" (2012)
 * Boombox — "Baby" (2013)
 * Boombox — "Ashes" (2013)
 * Boombox — "The Blocked Number" (2014)

Commercials

 * Toilet (2006)

Interviews

 * Interview of Vladimir Lert for "THE PEOPLE"
 * Interview of Vladimir Lert for LUXLUX.NET


 * Vladimir Lert visiting KP

Video Interviews

 * Vladimir Lert on MTV (part 1)
 * Vladimir Lert on MTV (part 2)