- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 21, 1906
- Place of Birth
- Kundravy, Urals, Russian Empire
- Died
- November 26, 1985
Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of Socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. In his last movie Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy…
Filmography
tvLegends of Cinema
2016 · Self (archive footage)
movieTomorrow Was the War
1987 · In Memory Of
movieJust Life...
1987 · (archive footage)
movieLev Tolstoy
1984 · Lev Tolstoi, Director, Story, Screenplay
Sergey Bondarchuk
movieSergey Bondarchuk
1982 · Self
movieAt the Beginning of Glorious Days
1981 · Director, Writer
movieThe Youth of Peter
1981 · Director, Writer
movieVGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
movieThe Red and the Black
1976 · Director, Writer
tvThe Red and the Black
1976 · Director, Writer
moviePyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1976 · Himself
movieDaughters-Mothers
1975 · Pyotr Nikanorovich Vorobyev, Director
movieKarlovy Vary Promenades
1974 · Self
movieOh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973 · Self
movieThe Love of Mankind
1973 · Director, Screenplay
movieBy the Lake
1970 · Director, Writer
movieOne Hour With Kozintsev
1970 · Self
movieThe Journalist
1967 · Alexei Kolesnikov, Director, Writer
movieWhite Mountains
1964 · Producer
movieMen and Beasts
1962 · Lvov-Shcherbatsky, Director, Writer
movieDima Gorin's Career
1961 · Consulting Producer
movieThe Maiden's Spring
1960 · Consulting Producer
movieStars Meet in Moscow
1959 · Self
movieThe Memory of the Heart
1958 · Screenplay
movieQuiet Flows the Don
1957 · Writer, Director
movieRoad of Truth
1957 · Writer
movieThe Wind Rose
1957 · Director
movieLand and People
1956 · Consulting Producer
movieNadezhda
1955 · Writer, Director
movieMysterious Find
1953 · Consulting Producer
movieIncident in the Taiga
1953 · Consulting Producer
movieVelikoye proshchaniye
1953 · Director
movieThe Country Doctor
1952 · Director
movieThe New China
1951 · Director
movieThe Young Guard
1948 · Director, Writer
Moscow Music Hall
movieMoscow Music Hall
1946 · Director, Writer
Верочка
movieВерочка
1946 · Director
movieBerlin Conference
1945 · Director
movieCrimean Conference
1945 · Director
movieThe Ural Front
1944 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Invincible
1943 · Screenplay, Director
movieMasquerade
1941 · , Writer, Director
movieChapayev is with Us
1941 · Writer
movieThe New Teacher
1939 · Director, Writer
movieKomsomolsk
1938 · Director, Writer
movieThe Brave Seven
1936 · Director, Screenplay
movieDo I Love You?
1934 · Director, Writer
movieWake Lena Up
1934
movieAlone
1931 · Village Chairman, Assistant Director
movieTwenty Two Misfortunes
1930 · Director
movieFragment of an Empire
1929
movieThe New Babylon
1929 · Lutro, the journalist
movieThe Club of the Big Deed
1927 · Medoks, opportunist
Chuzhoy pidzhak
movieChuzhoy pidzhak
1927 · Skalkovskiy
movieThe Overcoat
1926 · Yaryzhka, card sharp
movieThe Devil's Wheel
1926 · The Question Man
Мишки против Юденича
movieМишки против Юденича
1925 · Spy