Category
page 1Soviet male screenwriters

Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)
Isaak Babel
Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer (1894–1940)
Leonid Gaidai
Soviet film director (1923-1993)
Sergei Bondarchuk
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)

Sergey Mikhalkov
Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)
Sergei Parajanov
Soviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990)
Georgiy Daneliya
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1930–2019)

Vasily Shukshin
Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (1929-1974)
Eduard Uspensky
Russian writer (1937–2018)
Eldar Ryazanov
Soviet and Russian film director (1927–2015)

Viktor Shklovsky
Soviet Jewish writer
Vladimir Menshov
Soviet and Russian film director and actor (1939–2021)
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

Alexander Sokurov
Russian film director (born 1951)
Sergei Gerasimov
Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor (1906-1985)
Valentin Kataev
Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet (1897–1986)

Lev Kuleshov
Soviet filmmaker and film theorist (1899–1970)

Mikhail Romm
Soviet film director (1901–1971)

Vasily Livanov
Soviet and Russian actor and film director

Mikhail Kalatozov
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1903-1973)
Grigori Aleksandrov
Soviet film director (1903-1983)
Grigori Chukhrai
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001)

Aleksandr Ptushko
Soviet animation and fantasy film director (1900-1973)

Sergei Yutkevich
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1904–1985)
Boris Barnet
Soviet film director, screenwriter (1902-1965)
Yakov Protazanov
Russian film director and screenwriter (1881–1945)
Grigori Kozintsev
Soviet film director (1905-1973)
Elem Klimov
Soviet film director (1933–2003)
Ivan Pyryev
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1901-1968)

Veniamin Kaverin
Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)
Evgeny Shvarts
Russian writer (1896-1958)
Yuri Bondarev
Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter (1924–2020)
Ales Adamovich
Soviet Belarusian writer (1927–1994)
Dmytro Pavlychko
Ukrainian writer, diplomat and dissident
Rolan Bykov
Soviet and Russian actor, theater and film director, screenwriter (1929–1998)
Yuri Ilyenko
Ukrainian soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter (1936-2010)
Nikolai Aseev
Russian poet (1889–1963)
Nikolai Gubenko
Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter, politician (1941–2020)
Vladimir Basov
Soviet actor, film director, and screenwriter (1923–1987)

Mark Zakharov
Russian theatre director (1933-2019)
Aleksei Yuryevich German
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and producer (1938–2013)
Stanislav Rostotsky
film director (1922-2001)
Alexander Galich
Soviet musician and writer (1918–1977)
Vladimir Gardin
Russian and Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (1877–1965)
Fyodor Khitruk
Soviet and Russian animator and film director (1917–2012)

Alexander Mitta
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor
Boris Vasilyev
Soviet and Russian writer (1924—2013)
Pyotr Todorovsky
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, cinematographer, composer (1925-2013)
Jafar Jabbarly
Azerbaijani playwright, poet, director and screenwriter (1899-1934)

Fridrikh Ermler
Soviet film director (1898–1967)
Yuri Ozerov
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001)
Roman Karmen
Soviet cameraman and film director (1906-1978)
Eldar Shengelaya
Soviet and Georgian film director, screenwriter (1933–2025)
Mark Donskoy
Soviet film director and screenwriter (1901–1981)
Rustam Ibrahimbeyov
Soviet and Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter and film director (1939–2022)

Vladimir Bortko
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and producer
Yuri Nagibin
Russian writer (1920–1994)
Hamo Beknazarian
Soviet film director (1892–1965)