Background
Petukhovs was born in Riga, Latvia.
Petukhovs was born in Riga, Latvia.
He studied film at the National chool Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow.
He worked as a film critic for the daily newspaper Pravda. In the 1990s he emigrated to Poland and became assistant director of Baranowski, Kieślowski and Polański.