Sergey Bondarchuk

Sergey Bondarchuk (74)

1920-09-25 - 1994-10-20 | Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

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.

Movies as Director

On Movies

  • Quiet Flows The Don
  • Boris Godunov
  • The Gadfly
  • Take-Off
  • Velvet Season
  • Father Sergius
  • The Steppe
  • Пошехонская старина
  • The Peaks of Zelengore
  • They Fought for Their Motherland
  • Silence of Doctor Ivens
  • Uncle Vanya
  • The Battle of Neretva
  • 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
  • War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
  • Escape by Night
  • A Summer to Remember
  • Fate of a Man
  • Ivan Franko
  • Othello
  • Unfinished Story
  • The Grasshopper
  • It Can Not Be Forgotten
  • Attack from the Sea
  • Admiral Ushakov
  • Taras Shevchenko
  • Dream of a Cossack
  • Life in Bloom
  • Story of a Real Man
  • The Young Guard

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