Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk (Russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук / Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk, scientific transliteration Sergei Fedorovic Bondarčuk, Ukrainian Сергій Федорович Бондарчук, scientific transliteration Serhiy Fedorovyč Bondarčuk, Serhiy Fedorowytsch Bondarchuk; ; born September 25, 1920 in Belosjorka, province Kherson, today Biloserka, Kherson Oblast, † October 20, 1994 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and Academy Award winner. He is the father of Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Life
Sergei Bondarchuk concluded 1948, his acting studies from; He studied at the Drama School in Rostov-on- Don and Moscow Film School in Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova. In the same year he had in Gerasimov The young guard his film debut. In 1952 he was awarded the prize for Best Actor at the film festival in Karlovy Vary for his starring role in Igor Sawtschenkos Escape shackles (Russian Тарас Шевченко ), about the life of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. His portrayal of Othello in Sergei Jutkewitschs film adaptation from 1956 is a romantic assessed title character, the inside increases from gentleness into a frenzy. His first work abroad is one of the role of the Red Army soldier Fyodor in Roberto Rossellini It was night in Rome ( 1960).
His directorial debut was in 1959 Bondarchuk with today's classic Russian film history Fate of a Man on the eponymous story by the later Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov. On the film festival in Moscow, he received the Grand Prize for this.
His second outstanding work as a director is the lush film version War and Peace on the novel by Leo Tolstoy in Moscow again the award which he won in 1967 with the Grand Prize of the International Film Festival and was honored in 1969 with the Oscar for best foreign language film. Both in Fate of a Man as well as in war and peace Bondarchuk also be seen as an actor.
In Italy he turned in 1970, the internationally staffed Italian - Soviet co-production Waterloo. In the GDR television production Ernst Schneller he joined in 1977 as General Zotov and was awarded the Ernst Schneller price of the GDR. His two-part epic Red Bell (1981-1983) about the revolutions in Mexico (Part 1: Mexico in Flames ) and Russia (Part 2: I saw the birth of a new world ) according to the biographical colored writings of John Reed is dynamic crowd scenes coined. Mexico in flames in 1982 received the Grand Prize at the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary.
Bondarchuk was one of the most important Soviet filmmakers. At the age of 32, he was honored as the youngest actor ever, as a People's Artist of the USSR. From 1971, he taught himself at the Moscow Film School and was later secretary of the Association of Filmmakers of the USSR. In 1981 he published a book entitled Desirable miracle. His daughters Natalia and Yelena are also an actor, his son Fyodor Bondarchuk 's film director.