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

How the works were chosen

Russia

Filmmaker · Russia

Leonid Lukov

Died in 1963

Leonid Lukov (1909-1963), born in Mariupol on 2 May 1909, made his first film in 1930. He worked at the Kyiv studio, then in Tashkent during the war. The second part of one of his films was condemned by the party in 1946 and banned until 1958. A two-time Stalin Prize winner, in 1941 and 1952, he was named People's Artist of the Russian Federation in 1957. He died in Leningrad on 24 April 1963, during a shoot.

In the catalogue 1