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Sergei Bondarchuk
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Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor (1920–1994)
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Sergei Bondarchuk was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Born in Bilozerka in 1920, he was educated at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His professional career began in 1948, during which he worked with Mosfilm, the National Film Actors' Theatre, and the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He was a member of the Association of Filmmakers of the USSR and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Bondarchuk received several awards, including the USSR State Prize, the Order of Lenin, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", and the title of Hero of Socialist Labour. He was married to Inna Makarova and Irina Skobtseva, and their children included Natalya Bondarchuk, Yelena Bondarchuk, and Fyodor Bondarchuk. He died of a myocardial infarction in Moscow in 1994 and is buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
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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…
Known for
- 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
- Boris Godunov — Boris Godunov1986
- One Day of Mosfilm — Self1985
- Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk1983
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sergey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Bilozerka
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Spouse
- Irina Skobtseva
- Child
- Fyodor Bondarchuk
- Occupation
- public figure
- Educated at
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Award
- Crystal Globe
- Conflict
- Eastern Front
- Image
- Sergei Bondarchuk, Sarajevo, 29. november 1969. Movie premier Battle of Neretva by Stevan Kragujevic.JPG
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- place of burial
- Novodevichy Cemetery
- Commons category
- Sergei Bondarchuk
- date of birth
- 1920-09-25
- date of death
- 1994-10-20
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Sergei Bondarchuk
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Sergei Bondarchuk
- end of work period
- 1994-00-00
- name in native language
- Сергей Бондарчук
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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