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Sergei Bondarchuk

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Also known as Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk, Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk

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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Instance of
human
Given name
Sergey
Gender
male
Citizenship
Russia
Place of birth
Bilozerka
Place of death
Moscow
Occupation
public figure
Languages spoken
Russian
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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
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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