Yuri Tarich

Yuri Alekseyev, who signs Tarich, was born on 24 January 1885, in Polotsk or in Plock according to his own papers. Arrested in 1905 for his links with a revolutionary student organisation, he was exiled to the Tobolsk province, then acted in the theatre, first in the provinces, then in Moscow. A screenwriter and then a director in the twenties, he made in 1926 the very first Belarusian fiction film, then a Tatar film, and worked for the studios of Soviet Belarus. He then devoted himself to documentary and died in Moscow on 21 February 1967.

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• Feature filmTsogt TaijЦогт тайжYuri Tarich · 1945Cinema