Ivan Alexandrovich Pyrev

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Pyriev's tombstone in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Ivan Pyryev ( Russian Иван Александрович Пырьев ., Scientific transliteration Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyr'ev ; born November 4 . Jul / 17th November  1901 greg. In Kamen-na-Obi , Russian Empire ; † 7. February 1968 in Moscow ) was a Soviet film director. In 1948 he was awarded the honorary title “ People's Artist of the USSR ”.

biography

Pyrev's parents were Siberian farmers. Ivan Pyrjew grew up in Kamen am Ob and in Mariinsk until he moved out of the house at the age of around 14. In 1918 and later he fought as a volunteer on the Siberian Front of the Russian Civil War on the side of the Red Army . There he also worked as a political agitator and attended theater courses at a studio, where he met his later director colleague Grigory Alexandrow . After the war, Pyrev lived for a while in Yekaterinburg , where he played minor roles in a drama troupe with Alexandrov. In 1921 the two went to Moscow. There Pyrjew first played in one of the newly founded "workers' theaters", where he a. a. received a supporting role in Sergei Eisenstein's play Mexikaner , later he worked with theater director Meyerhold as an actor.

Pyrjew began his film career in 1925 after completing directing courses under Meyerhold's leadership. He worked as an assistant director for a few years until his first feature film, Stranger Woman , was released in 1929 . In the 1930s, Pyrjew made other films at the newly established Mosfilm studio in Moscow. The political drama Party Mandate (1936) and several musical comedies in the Alexandrov style, for whose background music Pyrjew was able to win over renowned songwriters such as Dunayevsky , Lebedev-Kumatsch and Chrennikow , were successful.

In 1936 Pyrjew married the actress Marina Ladynina , who played in his strip then and until the 1950s, when the marriage was divorced.

In the 1950s and 1960s Pyrjew also shot three film dramas that could not build on the success of his comedies from the prewar period. Among the more well-known late works of Pyrev are film adaptations of several works by Dostoyevsky . The last of these, The Karamazov Brothers , was filmed in 1968. But Pyrjew never saw the premiere of this film.

Filmography

  • 1929: Stranger Woman ( Посторонняя женщина )
  • 1930: State official ( Государственный чиновник )
  • 1933: Assembly Line of Death ( Конвейер смерти )
  • 1936: Party mandate ( Партийный билет )
  • 1937: Rich Bride ( Богатая невеста )
  • 1939: tractor drivers ( Трактористы )
  • 1940: Beloved Girl ( Любимая девушка )
  • 1941: They met in Moscow ( Свинарка и пастух )
  • 1942: Secretary of the Area Committee ( Секретарь райкома )
  • 1944: At 6 p.m. after the war ( В 6 часов вечера после войны )
  • 1948: The Song of Siberia ( Сказание о земле Сибирской )
  • 1949 Cuba Cossack ( Кубанские казаки )
  • 1951: Friendship wins (with Joris Ivens ; Мы за мир )
  • 1954: Loyalty test ( Испытание верности )
  • 1958: The Idiot ( Идиот )
  • 1959: White Nights ( Белые ночи )
  • 1960: Seriously ( Совершенно серьёзно )
  • 1962: Difficult decision ( Наш общий друг )
  • 1964: The light of a wide star ( Свет далёкой звезды )
  • 1969: The Karamazov brothers (with Kirill Lavrov and Michail Ulyanov ; Братья Карамазовы )

Honors, awards

literature

  • Leonhard H. Gmuer: Ivan A.Pyrjev - A director between kolkhoz musical and Dostojevskij demons . Berlin, epubli, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8442-2337-8

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pyrev, Ivan Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pyrʹev, Ivan Aleksandrovič (scientific transliteration); Пырьев, Иван Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet film director
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Came on the Ob
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1968
Place of death Moscow