My favourite Russian/Soviet directors (old school)

1. Andrei Tarkovsky

Writer | Offret

The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...

2. Dziga Vertov

Director | Chelovek s kino-apparatom

Dziga Vertov was born on January 2, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He ...

3. Sergei Eisenstein

Director | Ivan Groznyy

The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...

4. Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer | Zemlya

Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on September 10, 1894 in Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Earth (1930), Shors (1939) and Life in Bloom (1949). He was married to Yuliya ...

5. Grigoriy Chukhray

Director | Ballada o soldate

Studied at the Moscow Cinema Institute under Soviet film master Mikhail Romm. He found fame after his 1959 film "Ballad of a Soldier" which is considered one of the best Soviet war films and which has played all over the world.

6. Yakov Protazanov

Director | L'angoissante aventure

Yakov Protazanov was born on February 4, 1881 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for A Narrow Escape (1920), Without Dowry (1937) and Kak khoroshi, kak svezhi byli rozy (1913). He died on August 9, 1945 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].

7. Igor Savchenko

Director | Bogdan Khmelnitskiy

Igor Savchenko was born on October 11, 1906 in Vinnitsa, Vinnitsa uyezd, Podolsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vinnytsia, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Bogdan Khmelnitskiy (1941), Taras Shevchenko (1951) and Tretiy udar (1948). He died on December 14, 1950 ...

8. Vsevolod Pudovkin

Director | Admiral Nakhimov

Vsevolod Pudovkin was born on February 28, 1893 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Admiral Nakhimov (1947), Zhukovsky (1950) and Minin i Pozharskiy (1939). He was married to Anna Zemtsova. He died on June 30, 1953 in Jurmala, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].

9. Mark Donskoy

Director | Detstvo Gorkogo

Mark Donskoy was born on March 6, 1901 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938), Foma Gordeev (1959) and The Taras Family (1945). He died on March 21, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].

10. Mikhail Kalatozov

Director | Letyat zhuravli

Mikhail Kalatozov was born on December 28, 1903 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Cranes Are Flying (1957), True Friends (1954) and Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950). He died on March 27, 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now ...

11. Boris Barnet

Director | Miss Mend

Boris Barnet was born on June 18, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Secret Agent (1947) and Okraina (1933). He was married to Yelena Kuzmina, Natalia Glan, Alla Kazanskaya and Valentina Barnet. He died ...

12. Grigoriy Kozintsev

Director | Gamlet

Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev was born on March 22, 1905, in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kiev, Ukraine). His father, named Mikhail Kozintsev, was a medical doctor. Young Kozintsev studied at the Kiev Gymnazium. There, in 1919, he organized experimental theatre "Arlekin" together with his fellow ...

13. Sergei Yutkevich

Director | Otello

He has made been famous in the young soviet cinema by his films about Lenin (Lenin in Poland (1966) and others). He had a great international acclaim by his version of Othello (1956) and engaged to the Soviet cinema two French stars: Marina Vlady for Lika in Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza (1969) ...

14. Leonid Trauberg

Writer | Yunost Maksima

Leonid Trauberg was born on January 17, 1902 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Yunost Maksima (1935), The Return of Maxim (1937) and New Horizons (1939). He died on November 14, 1990 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].

15. Sergei Prokofiev

Soundtrack | Children of Men

Prokofiev was a multi-talented man and an innovative composer. He learned piano from his mother and chess from his father. He always had a chess set on his piano, and was able to play against the chess champions of his time. He studied music with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, graduated with highest ...

16. Sergei Parajanov

Director | Tini zabutykh predkiv

One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant ...

17. Larisa Shepitko

Director | Voskhozhdenie

Larisa Shepitko was born on January 6, 1938 in Bakhmut, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and writer, known for The Ascent (1977), Heat (1963) and You and Me (1971). She was married to Elem Klimov. She died on July 2, 1979 in near Redkino, Kalinin Oblast...

18. Aleksandr Medvedkin

Director | Novaya Moskva

Aleksandr Medvedkin was born on February 24, 1900 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The New Moscow (1938), Happiness (1935) and Chudesnitsa (1937). He died on February 20, 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].

19. Elem Klimov

Director | Idi i smotri

Elem Klimov was born on July 9, 1933 in Stalingrad, Nizhne-Volzhskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Volgograd, Volgogradskaya oblast, Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Come and See (1985), Rasputin (1981) and Pokhozhdeniya zubnogo vracha (1965). He was married to Larisa Shepitko. He died on ...

20. Ilya Frez

Director | Vam i ne snilos...

Ilya Frez was born on September 2, 1909 in Roslavl, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Roslavlsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Love and Lies (1981), Eto my ne prokhodili (1976) and Otryad Trubachyova srazhayetsya (1957). He died on June 22, 1994...

21. Vladimir Menshov

Actor | Nochnoy dozor

Vladimir Menshov was a Russian director and actor, noted for his depiction of the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Born on September, 17, 1937 in Baku (then USSR, now the territory of Azerbaijan), like many Russian directors and actors Menshov studied at the state film school ...

22. Georgiy Daneliya

Director | Kin-dza-dza!

Georgi Daneliya was born on August 25, 1930 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 1939 the family lived in Moscow, where Danelia's father was the chief engineer for the Moscow Underground Metro System. Daneliya's father became a decorated WWII General, specializing in construction of underground bunkers for ...

23. Eldar Ryazanov

Director | Sluzhebnyy roman

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born on November 18, 1927 in Samara, Russia. He graduated with honors from the Soviet State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1950, as a film director. He was making documentaries for five years. In 1955 Ryazanov came to work at the Mosfilm Studios under the ...

24. Vladimir Motyl

Director | Nesut menya koni

Vladimir Motyl was born on June 26, 1927 in Lepel, Belarussian SSR, USSR. He was a director and writer, known for Nesut menya koni (1997), Rasstanemsya - poka khoroshie (1991) and Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha' (1967). He was married to Ludmilla Podarueva. He died on February 21, 2010 in Moscow, ...

25. Leonid Gaidai

Director | Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika

Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born on January 30, 1923, in the town of Svobodny, Amur region of Siberia, USSR. He was the third child in the family of a railroad worker. His father, named Iov Isidorovich Gaidai, was exiled to Siberia from Poltava, Ukraine. His mother, named Maria Ivanovna Lubimova, came...

26. Karen Shakhnazarov

Producer | Palata N°6

Karen Shakhnazarov was born on July 8, 1952 in Krasnodar, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a producer and director, known for Ward No. 6 (2009), Zerograd (1988) and White Tiger (2012).

27. Iosif Kheifits

Director | Deputat Baltiki

Iosif Kheifits was born on December 4, 1905 in Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a director and writer, known for Baltic Deputy (1937), The Lady with the Dog (1960) and The Rumyantsev Case (1956). He was married to Yanina Zheymo. He died on April 24, 1995 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

28. Mark Zakharov

Director | Ubit drakona

Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov was born on October 13, 1933, in Moscow, Russia. His father was a Red Army soldier during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920, and his mother, Galina Sergeevna Zakharova, was an actress. Young Anatoli Zakharov was raised in Moscow. He was inspired by his mother in his ...

29. Vladimir Fetin

Director | Virineya

Vladimir Fetin was born on November 14, 1925 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Virineya (1969), Don Tale (1964) and Otkrytaya kniga (1974). He died on August 19, 1981 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].

30. Lev Atamanov

Director | Zolotaya antilopa

Lev Atamanov was born on February 21, 1905 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Golden Antelope (1954), The Snow Queen (1957) and The Magic Carpet (1948). He died on February 12, 1981 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].

31. Ivan Ivanov-Vano

Director | Secha pri Kerzhentse

Ivan Ivanov-Vano was born on February 8, 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Secha pri Kerzhentse (1971), The Snow Maiden (1952) and The Humpbacked Horse (1975). He died on March 25, 1987 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].

32. Roman Kachanov

Director | Tayna tretey planety

Roman Kachanov was born on February 25, 1921 in Smolensk, Smolensk uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, RSFSR [now Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981), Metamorphosis (1978) and Stories from My Childhood (1998). He died on March 4, 1993 in...

33. Yuriy Kara

Director | Zavtra byla voyna

Yuriy Kara was born on November 12, 1954 in Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Zavtra byla voyna (1987), Ya kukla (2002) and Korolyov (2007).

34. Fyodor Khitruk

Director | Daryu tebe zvezdu

Fyodor Khitruk was born on May 1, 1917 in Tver, Russia. He was a director and writer, known for I Give you a Star (1975), Ostrov (1973) and The Lion and the Bull (1984). He was married to Galina Khitruk and Mariya Motruk. He died on December 3, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.

35. Inessa Kovalevskaya

Director | Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde

Inessa Kovalevskaya was born on March 1, 1933. She is a director and writer, known for The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda (1973), Pictures from the Exhibition (1984) and Stories from My Childhood (1998).

36. Gennadiy Sokolskiy

Director | Ivashka iz Dvortsa pionerov

Gennadiy Sokolskiy was born on December 1, 1937 in Moscow, USSR. He was a director and writer, known for Ivashka from Pioneer Palace (1981), Lyubit cheloveka (1973) and The Castle of the Liars (1983). He died on December 27, 2014.

37. Aleksandr Askoldov

Director | Komissar

Aleksandr Askoldov was born on July 17, 1932 in Kiev, Ukraine, USSR. He was a director and actor, known for The Commissar (1967), La chasse aux papillons (1992) and Tal cual (1988). He was married to Svetlana. He died on May 21, 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

38. Wladyslaw Starewicz

Director | Zhitel nyeobitayemovo ostrova

Although his name nowadays means very little except to animation buffs (and even they have to be pretty well informed), Wladyslaw Starewicz ranks alongside Walt Disney, as one of the great animation pioneers, and his career started nearly a decade before Disney's. He became an animator by accident ...

39. Konstantin Lopushanskiy

Director | Gadkie lebedi

Konstantin Lopushanskiy was born on June 12, 1947 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for The Ugly Swans (2006), Visitor of a Museum (1989) and Dead Man's Letters (1986).

40. Sergey Bondarchuk

Actor | Voyna i mir

Sergei Bondarchuk was one of the most important Russian filmmakers, best known for directing an Academy Award-winning film epic War and Peace (1965), based on the book by Lev Tolstoy, in which he also starred as Pierre Bezukhov.

He was born Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk on September, 25, 1920, in the ...

41. Vasiliy Shukshin

Writer | Kalina krasnaya

Vasili Shukshin, one of Russian cinema's notable figures, was born Vasili Makarovich Shukshin into a peasant family on July 25, 1929, in the village of Srostki, Altai province, Siberian Russia. His father, named Makar Leontievich Shukshin, was a landlord who refused to join a collective farm and ...

42. Giorgi Shengelaia

Director | Pirosmani

Giorgi Shengelaia was born on May 11, 1937 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Pirosmani (1969), Veris ubnis melodiebi (1973) and Voyage of the Young Composer (1985). He was married to Nina Ketevan and Sofiko Chiaureli. He died on February 17, 2020 in ...

43. Andrey Konchalovskiy

Writer | Belye nochi pochtalyona Alekseya Tryapitsyna

The Russian theatre and film director Andrei Konchalovsky is an elder brother of Nikita Mikhalkov, born August, 20, 1937. As a youngster he planned to pursue a career of a musician and learned to play piano but his love for cinema outweighed and he entered VGIK-the major state film school where he ...

44. Nikita Mikhalkov

Actor | 12

Nikita Mikhalkov is the son of the famous communist poet Sergey Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics of the Soviet national anthem and had strong connections to the Communist Party. Nikita Mikhalkov's mother, Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya, was also a poet and daughter of famous painter Pyotr Petrovich...

45. Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Director | Vesna

Grigori Aleksandrov was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker best known as director of Volga - Volga (1938), The Circus (1936), and October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927), as well as co-star in Battleship Potemkin (1925) by director Sergei Eisenstein.

He was born Grigori Vasilyevich Mormonenko on ...

46. Mikhail Romm

Director | Russkiy vopros

Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He served in the Red Army in 1918-21 as an Inspector of the Special Forces for Food Supplies. He was in charge of confiscations of bread and food from the wealthier farmers (kulaks) in Central ...

47. Aleksey German

Writer | Khrustalyov, mashinu!

Aleksey German was born on July 20, 1938 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998), Hard to Be a God (2013) and Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985). He was married to Svetlana Karmalita. He died on February 21, 2013 in ...

48. Vitali Kanevsky

Director | Zamri, umri, voskresni!

Vitali Kanevsky was born on September 4, 1935 in Gamarnik, Far East Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Partizansk, Primorsky Krai, Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for Freeze Die Come to Life (1990), An Independent Life (1992) and KTO Bolche (2000).

49. Dmitriy Vasilev

Director | Zhukovsky

Dmitriy Vasilev was born on October 21, 1900 in Yeysk, Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire [now Krasnodar Krai, Russia]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Zhukovsky (1950), Operatsiya 'Kobra' (1960) and Admiral Nakhimov (1947). He died on January 5, 1984 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now ...

50. Gleb Panfilov

Director | Tema

Gleb Panfilov was born on May 21, 1934 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Theme (1979), Vassa (1983) and Mat (1990). He was married to Inna Churikova. He died on August 26, 2023 in Russia.

51. Leonid Lukov

Director | Bolshaya zhizn

Leonid Lukov was born on May 2, 1909 in Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Bolshaya zhizn (1939), Miners of the Don (1951) and Uz jauno krastu (1955). He died on April 24, 1963 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St...

52. Fridrikh Ermler

Director | Velikaya sila

Fridrikh Ermler was born on May 13, 1898 in Rechitsa, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rezekne, Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Great Force (1951), Great Citizen (1938) and The Turning Point (1945). He died on July 12, 1967 in Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia...

53. Vladimir Basov

Director | Metel

Vladimir Basov was a notable Soviet actor and director best known for the leading role as Bruno in Shchit i mech (1968), which he also directed, and his numerous supporting roles, such as Floor Polisher in Ya shagayu po Moskve (1964) (aka.. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1963), among other works.

He...

54. Lev Kulidzhanov

Director | Kogda derevya byli bolshimi

Lev Kulidzhanov was born on March 19, 1924 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for When the Trees Were Tall (1962), Nezabudki (1994) and Otchiy dom (1959). He died on February 18, 2002 in Moscow, Russia.

55. Yevgeni Karelov

Director | Sluzhili dva tovarishcha

Yevgeni Karelov was born on October 12, 1931 in Bogorodskoye, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Two Comrades Served (1968), Tretiy taym (1963) and Yasha Toporkov (1960). He died on July 11, 1977 in Pitsunda, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Abkhazia].

56. Marlen Khutsiev

Director | Beskonechnost

Marlen Khutsiev is a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1986), laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1993). Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Khutsiev studied at the 43rd Tbilisi Secondary School. In 1952 he ...

57. Tatyana Lioznova

Director | Tri topolya na Plyushchikhe

Tatyana Lioznova was born on July 20, 1924 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was a director and assistant director, known for Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street (1968), Karnaval (1982) and Konets sveta s posleduyushchim simpoziumom (1987). She died on September 29, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.

58. Aleksandr Mitta

Director | Raskalyonnaya subbota

Russian film director and screenwriter Alexander Mitta was born 28 March 1933 in Moscow. Alexander Mitta's career as film director and screenwriter spans from the 1960s until the 2010s.

He studied engineering in 1955, then worked as a cartoonist in art and magazines. In 1960 Mitta graduated at the ...

59. Igor Maslennikov

Director | Sentimentalnyi Roman

Igor Maslennikov was born on October 26, 1931 in Nizhny Novgorod, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Sentimentalnyi Roman (1976), Pisma k Elze (2002) and Zimnyaya vishnya 2 (1990). He died on September 17, 2022 in St. Petersburg, Russia.

60. Stanislav Rostotskiy

Director | Belyy Bim Chernoe ukho

Stanislav Rostotsky was a renown Russian film director whose two films, The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) and White Bim Black Ear (1977) were nominated for Oscar and won other international awards.

He was born Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky on April 21, 1922, in Rybinsk, north of Moscow, Russia. His ...

61. Lev Kuleshov

Director | Po zakonu

Lev Kuleshov was a Russian director who used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect." Although some of the editing innovations, such as crosscutting were used by other directors before him, Kuleshov was the first to use it in the Soviet Russia. he was driving a Ford sports car amidst ...

62. Sergey Komarov

Actor | Miss Mend

Sergey Komarov was born on March 2, 1891 in Vyazniki, Vyazniki uyezd, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and director, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Cosmic Journey (1936) and Potseluy Meri Pikford (...

63. Yuliya Solntseva

Director | Povest plamennykh let

Yuliya Solntseva was born on August 7, 1901 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was a director and actress, known for Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961), Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924) and Poem of the Sea (1958). She was married to Aleksandr Dovzhenko. She died on October 29, 1989 in ...

64. Andrey Smirnov

Producer | Zhila-byla odna baba

Andrey Smirnov was born on March 12, 1941 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and producer, known for Zhila-byla odna baba (2011), A Frenchman (2019) and Dnevnik ego zheny (2000).

65. Ivan Pyrev

Director | Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy

Ivan Pyrev was born on November 4, 1901 in Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kamen-na-Obi, Altayskiy kray, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Symphony of Life (1948), They Met in Moscow (1941) and Six P.M. (1944). He was married to Marina Ladynina and Lionella Pyryeva. He ...

66. Sergey Gerasimov

Director | Lev Tolstoy

Sergei Gerasimov was born in the village of Kundravy in Urals area of the Russian Empire, in 1906. He studied at the Leningrad College of Arts and graduated from the Actors Department of the Leningrad Institute for Stage Arts in 1928. He started his film career in 1924 as an actor, continued as an ...

67. Yuli Raizman

Director | Poslednyaya noch

Yuli Raizman was born on December 15, 1903 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Last Night (1937), Dream of a Cossack (1951) and The Fall of Berlin (1945). He died on December 11, 1994 in Moscow, Russia.

68. Aleksandr Ptushko

Director | Kamennyy tsvetok

Aleksandr Ptushko was born on April 19, 1900 in Lugansk, Lugansk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for The Stone Flower (1946), Sadko (1953) and Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972). He died on March 6, 1973 in Moscow, ...

69. Gennadiy Kazanskiy

Director | Rimskiy-Korsakov

Gennadiy Kazanskiy was born on December 1, 1910 in Voronezh, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire [now Voronezh Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and assistant director, known for Rimskiy-Korsakov (1953), Amphibian Man (1961) and Ugol padeniya (1970). He died on September 14, 1983.

70. Sergey Solovyov

Writer | Sto dney posle detstva

Sergey Solovyov was born on August 25, 1944 in Kem, Karelo-Finnish SSR, USSR [now Republic of Karelia, Russia]. He was a writer and director, known for One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975), Spasatel (1980) and Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy (1986). He was married to Tatyana Drubich, Marianna Kushnerova...

71. Sergey Urusevskiy

Cinematographer | Kavalier zolotoy zvezdy

Sergei Urusevsky is an Soviet cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Mikhail Kalatozov.

He started as a painter and photographer studying under the great graphic artist Vladimir Favorsky at the Institute of Fine Art in Moscow. Bringing a pictorial tradition to cinema, Urusevsky ...

72. Aleksandr Proshkin

Director | Kholodnoe leto pyatdesyat tretego

Aleksandr Proshkin was born on March 25, 1940 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988), Russkiy bunt (2000) and Live and Remember (2008).