Film Directors - Legends of World Cinema Episodes

1. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Ingmar Bergman

26 min | Documentary

Swedish film director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman is master made existential and soul-searching films that constitute one of the richest bodies of work in the history of cinema.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Ingmar Bergman

2. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Akira Kurosawa

26 min | Documentary

Japanese film director and screenwriter Akira Kurosawa is regarded as one of the most important and influential film directors in the history of cinema.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Akira Kurosawa

3. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: François Truffaut

26 min | Documentary

French film director and screenwriter François Truffaut is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, François Truffaut

4. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Michelangelo Antonioni

26 min | Documentary

Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni is known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" - L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962).

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Michelangelo Antonioni, Monica Vitti, Federico Fellini

5. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Sergei Eisenstein

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of early cinema. He epitomized the uneasy, if often dynamic, synthesis of art and politics.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Sergei Eisenstein

6. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Charlie Chaplin

26 min | Documentary

English comic actor, film director and screenwriter Charlie Chaplin is one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Charles Chaplin

7. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: D. W. Griffith

26 min | Documentary

American film director D. W. Griffith is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered the art of the narrative movie.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, D.W. Griffith

8. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Georges Méliès

26 min | Documentary

French illusionist and film director Georges Méliès was known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Georges Méliès

9. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: William Wyler

26 min | Documentary

American-German-Swiss film director William Wyler was regarded as second only to John Ford as a "master craftsman of cinema."

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, William Wyler

10. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Sergei Bondarchuk

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk is known for Oscar-Winning movie War and Peace (1965). He was one of the leading figures of Russian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Sergey Bondarchuk

11. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: George Cukor

26 min | Documentary

American film director George Cukor mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major movies.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, George Cukor

12. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Grigory Kozintsev

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Grigory Kozintsev is one of the great innovators of cinema. He is known for his adaptations of classic plays, include Don Kikhot (1957), Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1970).

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Grigoriy Kozintsev

13. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Yakov Protazanov

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Yakov Protazanov was one of the founding pioneers of Russian cinema.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Yakov Protazanov

14. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Sergei Gerasimov

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director and screenwriter Sergei Gerasimov is known for his acclaimed the epic movie Quiet Flows the Don (1957), based on the eponymous book by Mikhail Sholokhov. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Sergey Gerasimov

15. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Howard Hughes

26 min | Documentary

American business magnate and film director Howard Hughes gained fame in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-budget movie about aircraft themes.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Howard Hughes

16. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Franco Zeffirelli

26 min | Documentary

Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli renowned for his extravagantly romantic opera productions, popular film versions of Shakespeare and supercharged social life.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Franco Zeffirelli

17. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Mikhail Romm

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Mikhail Romm is one of the most important directors of Russia. The diversity in his filmmaking spanned from an epic movie about Vladimir Lenin to a portrait of a poor village woman.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Mikhail Romm

18. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Georgy Daneliya

26 min | Documentary

Georgian-Russian film director and screenwriter Georgy Daneliya was one of the most popular soviet film directors, whose gently satirical films managed to poke fun at just about everyone without offending anyone.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Georgiy Daneliya

19. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Lev Kuleshov

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director and film theorist Lev Kuleshov is one of the founders of the world's first film school. He used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect".

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Lev Kuleshov

20. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Vsevolod Pudovkin

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director and film theorist Vsevolod Pudovkin working during the first half of the 20th century.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Vsevolod Pudovkin

21. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Leonid Gaidai

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Leonid Gaidai is as "the king of Soviet comedy". His movies broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Leonid Gaidai

22. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Georg Jacoby

26 min | Documentary

German film director and screenwriter Georg Jacoby was known for his works between 1920s - 1940s.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Georg Jacoby

23. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Emil Loteanu

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Emil Loteanu is known for movies - The Shooting Party (1978), Queen of the Gypsies (1976), Lautarii (1972), Anna Pavlova (1983).

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Emil Loteanu

24. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Grigory Alexandrov

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Grigory Alexandrov was known for a soviet musical comedies in 1930s.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

25. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Marlen Khutsiev

26 min | Documentary

Georgian-Russian film director Marlen Khutsiev revitalized Soviet cinema with his New Wave sensibility during the Khrushchev Thaw of the mid 1950s and early 1960s.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Marlen Khutsiev

26. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Ivan Pyryev

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Ivan Pyryev remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes, served as Director of the Mosfilm studios and was the influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Ivan Pyrev

27. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Eldar Ryazanov

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Eldar Ryazanov became an icon of popular culture through tragi-comedies that gently satirised daily life in the USSR.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Eldar Ryazanov

28. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Leonid Trauberg

26 min | Documentary

Ukrainian film director and screenwriter Leonid Trauberg. He directed 17 movies between 1924 and 1961 years.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Leonid Trauberg

29. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Boris Barnet

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Boris Barnet was one of the greatest geniuses in Russian film. He directed 27 movies between 1927 and 1963.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Boris Barnet

30. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Yury Ozerov

26 min | Documentary

Russian film director Yury Ozerov was known for his movies about World War II. He directed twenty between 1950 and 1995.

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Yuriy Ozerov

31. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )
Episode: Vladimir Basov

26 min | Documentary

Russian actor and film director Vladimir Basov is known for his popular starring episode roles in movies and as a film director made 18 movies. Among his most acclaimed a spy thriller Shchit i mech (1968).

Director: Andrey Istratov | Stars: Konstantin Karasik, Vladimir Basov

32. Legends of World Cinema (2004– )

Documentary

3.5

0

Rate

1

Rate

2

Rate

3

Rate

4

Rate

5

Rate

6

Rate

7

Rate

8

Rate

9

Rate

10

Rate

0

Error: please try again.

Weekly series of television feature documentaries "Legends of World Cinema" Different stories become the basis of the movie stars story. The film is about the fate of people whose names are forever in the history of world cinema.

Star: Konstantin Karasik

Votes: 50