Aleksander Karo is a pen name of Alexander Detkov, a Russian screenwriter and film director. In 1994, he graduated from the screenwriting department of VGIK. His film debut came in 1995 with the film anthology The Arrival of the Train (marking the 100th anniversary of cinema), for which he wrote the screenplay for one of the short stories. He gained widespread fame with the television film “Railway Romance” (2002), which was included in the New Year’s program of central TV channels for years. In 2022, after the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, he moved to Israel. He made his directorial debut in Israel as a director with Before the Bar Mitzvah, a short film which won seven international awards.