- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- October 4, 1925
- Place of Birth
- Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
- Died
- March 19, 2019
Marlen Khutsiyev
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward. Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by…
Filmography
movieThe Cinema Language of an Era: Marlen Khutsiev
2023 · Self
movieA Georgian Toast
2020 · Self
movieThe Gift
2019 · Self
movieAndrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
2019 · Self
movieInto_nation of Big Odesa
2018 · Himself / Narrator
movieAbderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017 · Self
movieKhutsiev. Action Starts!
2015
movieVenice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director, Writer
movieAlexander Belyavsky. Fox's Personal File
2012 · Self - Режиссер
moviePeople of 1941
2001 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
tvTo Remember
1993 · Narrator
movieInfinity
1993 · Director, Screenplay
tvDzhura - Hunter from Min-Arkhar
1985 · Screenplay, Creator
moviePostscript
1983 · Writer, Director
movieAllegro with Fire
1979 · Producer
movieVGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
movieOn the Day of the Holiday
1978 · Ramzes
movieAnd Still I Believe
1974 · Director
movieThe Scarlet Sail of Paris
1971 · Director, Author
movieIt Was In May
1970 · Director
movieShine, Shine, My Star
1969 · Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)
movieIntervention
1968 · Главнокомандующий
movieStrong with Spirit
1967 · Supervising Art Director
movieJuly Rain
1967 · Director, Writer
movieI Am Twenty
1965 · Director, Writer
movieThe Two Fedors
1958 · Director
movieYouth Street
1958 · Writer
movieSpring on Zarechnaya Street
1956 · Director
movieLyana
1955 · Assistant Director