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Sergei Gerasimov
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Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters.
The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of Socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary.
During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and…
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Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of Socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. In his last movie Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergei Gerasimov (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Just Life...
as (archive footage)
Lev Tolstoy
as Lev Tolstoi
No Poster
Sergey Bondarchuk
as Self
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself
Daughters-Mothers
as Pyotr Nikanorovich Vorobyev
Karlovy Vary Promenades
as Self
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
as Self
One Hour With Kozintsev
as Self
The Journalist
as Alexei Kolesnikov
Men and Beasts
as Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self
Masquerade
Wake Lena Up
Alone
as Village Chairman
Fragment of an Empire
The New Babylon
as Lutro, the journalist
The Club of the Big Deed
as Medoks, opportunist
No Poster
Chuzhoy pidzhak
as Skalkovskiy
The Overcoat
as Yaryzhka, card sharp
The Devil's Wheel
as The Question Man
No Poster
Мишки против Юденича
as Spy