Aleksei Speshnyov was born on March 27, 1911 in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for
Khronika nochi (1973),
Moskva - Genuya (1964) and
Plata za istinu (1978). He died in 1994 in Moscow, Russia.