Sergei Bondarchuk
Directing
- Born:
- 1920-09-25
- Died:
- 1994-10-20
- Place of birth:
- Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Biography
Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.
Known For
Filmography
Bondarchuk. Battle
Legends of Cinema
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
Quiet Flows The Don
Thunder Over Rus'
Drums of Fire
The Airport Incident
Boris Godunov
Bambi's Childhood
One Day of Mosfilm
Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
Sergey Bondarchuk
The Gadfly
Gnat
Profession: Film Actor
¡Qué Viva México!
Take-Off
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Velvet Season
Father Sergius
The Steppe
Ernst Schneller
Old Times in Poshekhonye
The Peaks of Zelengore
Choice of Purpose
They Fought for Their Motherland
The Mountain Woman
Such High Mountains
Doctor Evan's Silence
The Golden Gates
Uncle Vanya
The Battle of Neretva
Making 'War and Peace'
War and Peace
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Woina i Mir
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Escape by Night
A Summer to Remember
Stars Meet in Moscow
Fate of a Man
Soldiers Were Walking
Ivan Franko
Othello
Unfinished Story
The Grasshopper
It Can Not Be Forgotten
Attack from the Sea
Admiral Ushakov
Andriesh
Taras Shevchenko
Dream of a Cossack
Glorious Path
Michurin
Story of a Real Man
The Young Guard