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Filmmaker · Ukraine

Sergei Bondarchuk

Died in 1994

Sergei Bondarchuk was born on 25 September 1920 in Bilozerka, in the Kherson region. A student at the Rostov theatre school from 1938 to 1941, he served in the war from 1942 to 1946, then graduated in 1948 from Sergei Gerasimov's workshop at the Moscow film school. The role of the poet Shevchenko, in a film shot in Kyiv in 1951, earned him at thirty-one the title of People's Artist of the Union; he also played the writer Ivan Franko in Kyiv in 1956. A director at Mosfilm from 1959 until his death, he died on 20 October 1994.

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