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Filmmaker · Albania

Sergei Yutkevich

Died in 1985

Sergei Yutkevich was born in Saint Petersburg in 1904. As a teenager he staged puppet shows, then from 1921 to 1923 followed Meyerhold's directing workshops and painted theatre sets. He took part in the birth of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor, between theatre and circus, and from 1928 directed comedies drawing on American slapstick, then films devoted to Lenin. Winner of the prize for directing at Cannes in 1956 and in 1966, he taught directing at the Moscow film school and published works of theory. He died in Moscow in 1985.

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