Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (Russian Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; * 9 Märzjul / March 22 1905greg in Kiev, .. † May 11, 1973 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.

Life

Kozintsev was born the son of a doctor. Even as a youth he had founded an experimental theater with Sergei Jutkewitsch and for written pieces. Kozintsev studied from 1919 to 1920 at the Kiev Art School painting. Among his teachers was Alexandra Exter. In 1920 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied until 1922 at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Painting and Leonid Trauberg met. With him, Sergei Gerasimov and Sergei Jutkewitsch he founded in 1922 the " factory of the eccentric actor " ( FEKS ), which won its inspiration from folk art, cabaret and the circus.

With Trauberg Kozintsev turned in 1924 his first film The Adventures of a child in October and worked with him until 1946 together. It was only when the film Ordinary people reprimanded by the Central Committee in 1946 and withdrawn in consequence, they ended their collaboration. Kozintsev worked at the theater and later returned to the film. With its film adaptations of Don Quixote (1957 ), Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971 ), he attracted international attention.

Kozintsev died in 1973 and was buried in the Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

Filmography

In collaboration with Leonid Trauberg

Located in a secluded Director

Awards

Don Quixote was in 1957 in competition at the International Film Festival of Cannes. At the International Film Festival of Cannes 1960, he was a member of the festival jury.

At the International Film Festival of Venice Kozintsev was awarded in 1964 for Hamlet with the Special Jury Prize. In the same year he was awarded for Hamlet with the Sutherland Trophy at the British Film Institute.

In 1964, Kozintsev was awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR.