Sergei Gerasimov (film director)
Sergei Gerasimov Apollinarijewitsch (Russian: Сергей Аполлинариевич Герасимов; * 21 Maijul / June 3 1906greg in the village Kundrawy, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire, today Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, .. † November 26, 1985 in Moscow) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor.
Life
Gerasimov studied at the Leningrad Art School and completed his studies at the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts 1928. His film debut was Gerasimov in 1926 and he joined up in the early 1930s at Sowkino in seven films as an actor. Except for the man who lost his memory (1929 ) by Friedrich Ermler all made these silent films - including The mantle (1926 ), The New Babylon (1929) and Odna (1931 ) - with the directing duo Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg and the cameraman Andrei Moskvin, with whom he had already founded in 1922, the avant-garde artist collective FEKS ( factory of the eccentric actor). From 1930 Gerasimov also led self directed and wrote screenplays.
From the mid- 1930s taught Gerasimov spectacle for the Lenfilm studio, and set the young actors in his films a. His student Tamara Makarova later became his wife and colleague, another major students were Sergei Bondarchuk Gerasimov, whose wife Inna Makarova, Sergei Gurso, Ludmila Shagalova, Nonna Mordjukowa, Galina Polskich and Vyacheslav Tikhonov.
Gerasimov 's most important film work is the three-part The Quiet Don from 1957 based on the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov. The film tells the story of the Don Cossacks in the drawing of war and civil war between 1912 and 1922. Gerasimov succeeded in 1984 with the film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy Biography another success, the director himself took over the title role of the famous Russian writer.
The Moscow Institute of Cinematography named after Sergei Gerasimov.