Gleb Panfilov

Gleb Panfilov Anatoljevich (Russian Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; born May 21, 1934 in Magnitogorsk, Soviet Union ) is a Russian film director.

Life

Panfilov had until 1957 attended the Polytechnic Institute of the Ural and then began to work as a chemist. In 1958, he joined an amateur film club in Sverdlovsk and debuted in the same year as a director. Panfilov made ​​short documentaries and was hired by the local TV station as a screenwriter and director. At Moscow State Film School, he attended WGIK 1960-1963 Courses camera and went through to 1966, training as a writer- director at Goskino.

In 1967 Panfilov first full-length, professional cinema: the ideological toe the party line, but convincingly played Civil War drama In The Fire is not a ford. " Panfilov best work provided interesting insights into the Soviet everyday life from a variety of life and career prospects. " These productions lived primarily from the psychologizing lead performances of the later Panfilov wife Inna Churikova.

After receiving the theme problems with censorship with the system- critical work - the 1979 resultant film was honored in Berlin in March 1987 with the Golden Bears - to Panfilov concentrated on less embarrassing topics and directed, among others, two adaptations of Gorky templates ( Wassa Schelesnowa and The mother ).

Filmography (selection)

Directed, written and co- writer