Russian Directors & origine's
by angeliki_spatki | created - 08 Sep 2016 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicRussian yesterday's and today's prominent directors
1. Andrey Konchalovskiy
Writer | Belye nochi pochtalyona Alekseya Tryapitsyna
The Russian theatre and film director Andrei Konchalovsky is an elder brother of Nikita Mikhalkov, born August, 20, 1937. As a youngster he planned to pursue a career of a musician and learned to play piano but his love for cinema outweighed and he entered VGIK-the major state film school where he ...
Dear Comrades! 2022, Paradise 2016, The postman's white nights 2014, The Inner Circle 1991 - RU
2. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Director | Nelyubov
Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "...
Loveless 2017, Elena 2011, Vozvrashchenie (The Return) Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, 2003, Leviathan - (Novosibirsk) RU
3. Mikhail Kalatozov
Director | Letyat zhuravli
Mikhail Kalatozov was born on December 28, 1903 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Cranes Are Flying (1957), True Friends (1954) and Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950). He died on March 27, 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now ...
Soy Cuba 1964, Neotpravlennoe pismo (Letter Never Sent) 1960, The cranes are flying 1957 RU
4. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
5. Iosif Kheifits
Director | Deputat Baltiki
Iosif Kheifits was born on December 4, 1905 in Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was a director and writer, known for Baltic Deputy (1937), The Lady with the Dog (1960) and The Rumyantsev Case (1956). He was married to Yanina Zheymo. He died on April 24, 1995 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Lady with the dog 1960 based on Anton Chekhovs short story (●'◡'●) more about it (l. greek)
6. Sergey Gerasimov
Director | Lev Tolstoy
Sergei Gerasimov was born in the village of Kundravy in Urals area of the Russian Empire, in 1906. He studied at the Leningrad College of Arts and graduated from the Actors Department of the Leningrad Institute for Stage Arts in 1928. He started his film career in 1924 as an actor, continued as an ...
Lev Tolstoi 1981 (Last years of Leon Tolstoy), Quiet flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) 1957 The lives of the shattered Cosaks in the Don river region
7. Stanislav Rostotskiy
Director | Belyy Bim Chernoe ukho
Stanislav Rostotsky was a renown Russian film director whose two films, The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) and White Bim Black Ear (1977) were nominated for Oscar and won other international awards.
He was born Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky on April 21, 1922, in Rybinsk, north of Moscow, Russia. His ...
8. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Writer | Zemlya
Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on September 10, 1894 in Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Earth (1930), Shors (1939) and Life in Bloom (1949). He was married to Yuliya ...
Arsenal 1929
9. Lev Kulidzhanov
Director | Kogda derevya byli bolshimi
Lev Kulidzhanov was born on March 19, 1924 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and writer, known for When the Trees Were Tall (1962), Nezabudki (1994) and Otchiy dom (1959). He died on February 18, 2002 in Moscow, Russia.
Crime and Punishment (Prestuplenie i nakazanie) 1970 (more on this movie /l. greek)
10. Ivan Pyrev
Director | Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy
Ivan Pyrev was born on November 4, 1901 in Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kamen-na-Obi, Altayskiy kray, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Symphony of Life (1948), They Met in Moscow (1941) and Six P.M. (1944). He was married to Marina Ladynina and Lionella Pyryeva. He ...
Bratya Karamazovy (Karamazov brothers) 1969, Idiot 1958
11. Karen Shakhnazarov
Producer | Palata N°6
Karen Shakhnazarov was born on July 8, 1952 in Krasnodar, Krasnodarskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a producer and director, known for Ward No. 6 (2009), Zerograd (1988) and White Tiger (2012).
Tsareubiytsa (Assassin of the Tsar) 1991, The Rider named Death 2004 RU
12. Sergei Eisenstein
Director | Ivan Groznyy
The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...
Bronenocets Potemkin (Potemkin Battleship) 1925, Stachka 1925 (•_•) more, Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico
13. Kirill Lavrov
Actor | Bratya Karamazovy
Kirill Lavrov was a notable Russian actor, director and political figure who was also longtime Chairman of Theatrical Union of the USSR and the leader of Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia.
He was born Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov on September 15, 1925, in Leningrad, USSR (...
Bratya Karamazovy (Karamazov brothers) 1969
14. Mikhail Romm
Director | Russkiy vopros
Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He served in the Red Army in 1918-21 as an Inspector of the Special Forces for Food Supplies. He was in charge of confiscations of bread and food from the wealthier farmers (kulaks) in Central ...
Lenin v 1918 1939
15. Sergei Parajanov
Director | Tini zabutykh predkiv
One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant ...
Ashik Kerib 1988
16. Mikhail Vartanov
Cinematographer | Parajanov: The Last Spring
Vartanov was blacklisted for his debut film, The Color of Land (1969), where he portrayed his dissident friends Parajanov (imprisoned in 1974) and Minas (assassinated in 1975). When Vartanov's artistic freedom was restored 20 years later, he responded with Minas: A Requiem (1989) and Parajanov: The...
The Last Spring 1992, Autumn Pastoral 1971
17. Yakov Protazanov
Director | L'angoissante aventure
Yakov Protazanov was born on February 4, 1881 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for A Narrow Escape (1920), Without Dowry (1937) and Kak khoroshi, kak svezhi byli rozy (1913). He died on August 9, 1945 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
Bespridannitsa 1937, An hour with Chekhov (silent) 1929
18. Grigoriy Kozintsev
Director | Gamlet
Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev was born on March 22, 1905, in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kiev, Ukraine). His father, named Mikhail Kozintsev, was a medical doctor. Young Kozintsev studied at the Kiev Gymnazium. There, in 1919, he organized experimental theatre "Arlekin" together with his fellow ...
Korol Lir (King Lear) 1971, Don Kikhot 1957, Belinskiy 1953
19. Sergey Bondarchuk
Actor | Voyna i mir
Sergei Bondarchuk was one of the most important Russian filmmakers, best known for directing an Academy Award-winning film epic War and Peace (1965), based on the book by Lev Tolstoy, in which he also starred as Pierre Bezukhov.
He was born Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk on September, 25, 1920, in the ...
War and Piece 1966
20. Larisa Shepitko
Director | Voskhozhdenie
Larisa Shepitko was born on January 6, 1938 in Bakhmut, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and writer, known for The Ascent (1977), Heat (1963) and You and Me (1971). She was married to Elem Klimov. She died on July 2, 1979 in near Redkino, Kalinin Oblast...
Voskhozdenie (The Ascent) 1977, Camel 1964
21. Eldar Ryazanov
Director | Sluzhebnyy roman
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born on November 18, 1927 in Samara, Russia. He graduated with honors from the Soviet State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1950, as a film director. He was making documentaries for five years. In 1955 Ryazanov came to work at the Mosfilm Studios under the ...
Beregis Avtomobilya (Automobiles Thief) 1966
22. Nikita Mikhalkov
Actor | 12
Nikita Mikhalkov is the son of the famous communist poet Sergey Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics of the Soviet national anthem and had strong connections to the Communist Party. Nikita Mikhalkov's mother, Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya, was also a poet and daughter of famous painter Pyotr Petrovich...
Imperator Aleksandr III 1997, "Burnt by the Sun" 1994, Oci Ciornie 1987, At home among strangers ... 1974 RU
23. Vladimir Rogovoy
Director | Gorozhane
Vladimir Rogovoy was born on February 5, 1923 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was a director and producer, known for Gorozhane (1976), U matrosov net voprosov (1981) and Zhenatyy kholostyak (1982). He died on February 20, 1983 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
Ofitsery 1971
24. Vladimir Motyl
Director | Nesut menya koni
Vladimir Motyl was born on June 26, 1927 in Lepel, Belarussian SSR, USSR. He was a director and writer, known for Nesut menya koni (1997), Rasstanemsya - poka khoroshie (1991) and Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha' (1967). He was married to Ludmilla Podarueva. He died on February 21, 2010 in Moscow, ...
25. Grigoriy Chukhray
Director | Ballada o soldate
Studied at the Moscow Cinema Institute under Soviet film master Mikhail Romm. He found fame after his 1959 film "Ballad of a Soldier" which is considered one of the best Soviet war films and which has played all over the world.
Sorok Pervyy (The Fourty-first) 1956
26. Rolan Bykov
Actor | Chuchelo
Rolan Bykov was born on November 12, 1929 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor and director, known for Chuchelo (1984), Aybolit-66 (1967) and Andrei Rublev (1966). He was married to Elena Sanaeva. He died on October 6, 1998 in Moscow, Russia.
Chuchelo (Scarecrow) 1984, Telegramma 1972
27. Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Director | Vesna
Grigori Aleksandrov was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker best known as director of Volga - Volga (1938), The Circus (1936), and October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927), as well as co-star in Battleship Potemkin (1925) by director Sergei Eisenstein.
He was born Grigori Vasilyevich Mormonenko on ...
Vesna (Primavera) 1947
28. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director | Admiral Nakhimov
Vsevolod Pudovkin was born on February 28, 1893 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Admiral Nakhimov (1947), Zhukovsky (1950) and Minin i Pozharskiy (1939). He was married to Anna Zemtsova. He died on June 30, 1953 in Jurmala, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].
29. Mark Donskoy
Director | Detstvo Gorkogo
Mark Donskoy was born on March 6, 1901 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938), Foma Gordeev (1959) and The Taras Family (1945). He died on March 21, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
The horse that cried 1957
30. Lev Kuleshov
Director | Po zakonu
Lev Kuleshov was a Russian director who used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect." Although some of the editing innovations, such as crosscutting were used by other directors before him, Kuleshov was the first to use it in the Soviet Russia. he was driving a Ford sports car amidst ...
31. Boris Barnet
Director | Miss Mend
Boris Barnet was born on June 18, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Secret Agent (1947) and Okraina (1933). He was married to Yelena Kuzmina, Natalia Glan, Alla Kazanskaya and Valentina Barnet. He died ...
32. Aleksandr Zarkhi
Director | Deputat Baltiki
Aleksandr Zarkhi was born on February 18, 1908 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Baltic Deputy (1937), Razgrom militaristkoy Japonii (1945) and Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1981). He died on January 27, 1997 in Moscow, Russia.
Anna Karenina 1967, 24 days in the life of Dostoevski 1981
33. Yuriy Kara
Director | Zavtra byla voyna
Yuriy Kara was born on November 12, 1954 in Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Zavtra byla voyna (1987), Ya kukla (2002) and Korolyov (2007).
34. Kirill Serebrennikov
Director | Leto
Kirill Serebrennikov was born on September 7, 1969 in Rostov-na-Donu, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for Leto (2018), The Student (2016) and Petrov's Flu (2021).
Tchaikovsky's Wife 2022 (Zhena Chaikovskogo), Summer 2021, Yurev Den 2013
35. Dziga Vertov
Director | Chelovek s kino-apparatom
Dziga Vertov was born on January 2, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He ...
Man with movie machine documentary 1929 - b.PO
36. Esfir Shub
Editor | K.S.E. - Komsomol Shef Elektrifikatsii
Esfir Shub was born into a family of landowners. She studied literature in Moscow, but after Revolution she began to attend the classes at the Institute for Women's Higher Education and then got a job as a 'theater officer' at the State Commissariat of Education. In the theatre she worked in ...
The fall of the Romanov dynasty 1938 documentary
37. Stanislav Govorukhin
Director | Konets prekrasnoy epokhi
Stanislav Govorukhin was born on March 29, 1936 in Berezniki, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Perm Krai, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The End of a Beautiful Epoch (2015), The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999) and Weekend [Uik-end] (2013). He was married to Galina Govorukhina ...
Desyat Negrityat (Ten little niggers, from Agatha Cristie's novel) 1987
38. Yuriy Kara
Director | Zavtra byla voyna
Yuriy Kara was born on November 12, 1954 in Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Zavtra byla voyna (1987), Ya kukla (2002) and Korolyov (2007).
Master & Margarita 2006
39. Efim Dzigan
Director | Yesli zavtra voyna
Efim Dzigan was born on December 14, 1898 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for If War Comes Tomorrow (1938), We Are from Kronstadt (1936) and Tetri mkhedari (1929). He died on December 31, 1981 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
My iz Kronshtadta 1936
40. Aleksandr Kasatkin
Director | Doch
Alexander Ludwigovich Kasatkin was born in Moscow. He studied at the VGIK at the director's department. Later he graduated from the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors. Prior to his career, Alexander worked as an assistant in the films of Mikhail Kozakov, Leonid Maryagin and Vladimir ...
41. Gleb Panfilov
Director | Tema
Gleb Panfilov was born on May 21, 1934 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Theme (1979), Vassa (1983) and Mat (1990). He was married to Inna Churikova. He died on August 26, 2023 in Russia.
42. Yuri Sadomsky
Director | Lavka Rubinchik i...
Yuri Sadomsky is known for Lavka Rubinchik i... (1992), Shabbat (2011) and Po ulitsam komod vodili... (1978).
43. Sergey Mikaelyan
Director | Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu
Sergey Mikaelyan was born on November 1, 1923 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (1982), Premiya (1975) and Idu na grozu (1965). He died on December 10, 2016 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
44. Jerzy Skolimowski
Actor | The Avengers
Born in Lódz, Poland, in 1938. Director, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959. Graduated from Lódz Film Academy in directing in 1962. Feature debut: _Identification Marks - None_ (Rysopis, 1964, scr., dir, act.), awarded ...
EO 2022 (Prize of Jury Cannes '22)
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