Sergei Bondarchuk

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)

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Sergei Bondarchuk was a prominent Soviet and Russian filmmaker who worked as a director, screenwriter, and actor from 1920 until his death in 1994. He is remembered as an important figure in cinema history, though his specific accomplishments and influence would require additional sources to detail accurately.

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Born: 1920
Died: 1994
Works: 1

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Directing · Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved…

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Bondarchuk. Battle — self (archive)2021
Legends of Cinema — Self (archive footage)2016
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик — Self2015
Quiet Flows The Don — General Krasnov2006
Thunder Over Rus'1992
Drums of Fire — Selim1990
The Airport Incident1989

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Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 – 20 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker, born in Ukraine, who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping period dramas, including War and Peace (1966-67), his internationally acclaimed four-part film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, and for Waterloo (1970), a Napoleonic War epic.

Bondarchuk's work won him numerous international accolades. War and Peace won Bondarchuk, who both directed and acted in the leading role of Pierre Bezukhov, the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1968), and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968. He was made both a Hero of Socialist Labour and a People's Artist of the USSR.