ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Russia

Filmmaker · Russia

Grigori Chukhrai

Died in 2001

Grigori Chukhrai (1921-2001), born in Melitopol, was mobilised before the war and served in the signals and then in the airborne troops; he was wounded several times. Demobilised, he entered the Moscow film institute, in the workshop of Sergei Yutkevich and Mikhail Romm. His first film, in 1956, was noticed at Cannes the following year. Winner of the Lenin Prize in 1961, he headed from 1965, at Mosfilm, an experimental studio that tried out a different system of pay for crews. He died in Moscow in 2001.

In the catalogue 1