Sergei Pavlovich Urusevsky

Sergey Urusevsky ( Russian Сергей Павлович Урусевский ; born December 10 ^{. Jul} / 23. December  1908 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 12. November 1974 in Moscow ) was a Soviet cameraman and director .

Life

Urussewski graduated in 1929 the artistic-industrial pilot plant in Leningrad ( Ленинградский художественно-промышленный техникум ) and then studied until 1935 at the Institute of Performing Arts ( Московский институт изобразительных искусств , later Surikov -Kunstinstitut ) in Moscow, including in the master class of Vladimir Faworski .

From 1935 he worked as a camera assistant, from 1941 as a cameraman at the Moscow children's film studio Soyuzdetfilm ( Союздетфильм ), which later became the Gorky film studio . During the Great Patriotic War he was employed as a front camera operator in 1942/43.

After two successful works with director Mark Donskoi ( Urusevsky was collectively awarded the Stalin Prize in 1948 for educating the emotions ), he moved from the Gorky film studio to Mosfilm in 1950 . There he first worked with Juli Raisman ; for his Knight of the Golden Star , Urusevsky received the Stalin Prize again in 1952 as a collective. Also in 1952 he directed the camera in Vsevolod Pudovkin 's last film Three People . In 1956 he filmed Grigori Tschuchrai's directorial debut The Last Shot , which received a special award in Cannes in 1957 .

His collaboration with Mikhail Kalatosow , which he began in 1955, was particularly successful . Their second joint film, The Cranes Pull , received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1958 , and Urussewski was awarded the Commission Supérieure Technique prize for his impressive cinematography . The fourth and final work with Kalatosow, Ich bin Kuba (1964), was initially received critically by contemporaries and was only rediscovered 30 years later in the USA. The film screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1993 , was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 1996 and won a special award from the National Society of Film Critics , and in 2005 a restored version with original Spanish sound was released.

After the end of the collaboration with Kalatosow, Urusevsky switched to directing. In 1968 he shot Farewell to Gulsary based on a story by Tschingis Aitmatow , who also wrote the screenplay. His last work followed in 1973, the film Sing your song, poet about the life of the poet Sergei Yesenin .

Filmography

as cameraman:

• 1941: How Iwan Iwanowitsch and Iwan Nikiforowitsch became enemies ( Как поссорился Иван Иванович с Иваном Никифоровичем ) - directed by Andrei Kustow and Anissim Masur
• 1945: Duel ( Поединок ) - directed by Vladimir Legozhin
• 1946: Sinegorija ( Синегория ) - directed by Erast Garin and Chesja Lokschina
• 1947: Education of Emotions ( Сельская учительница ) - Director: Mark Donskoi
• 1949: Алитет уходит в горы - Director: Mark Donskoi
• 1950: Knight of the Golden Star ( Кавалер Золотой Звезды ) - Director: Juli Raisman
• 1952: Drei Menschen ( Возвращение Василия Бортникова ) - directed by Vsevolod Pudowkin
• 1955: Meine Frau ( Урок жизни ) - Director: Juli Raisman
• 1955: The First Train ( Первый эшелон ) - directed by Mikhail Kalatosow
• 1956: The Last Shot ( Сорок первый ) - Director: Grigori Tschuchrai
• 1957: Pulling the Cranes ( Летят журавли ) - Director: Michail Kalatosow
• 1959: A letter that didn't go out ( Неотправленное письмо ) - directed by Michail Kalatosow
• 1964: Ich, Kuba / Ich bin Kuba ( Я - Куба ) - Director: Michail Kalatosow

as director and cameraman:

• 1969: Farewell to Gulsary ( Бег иноходца )
• 1973: Sing your song, poet ( Пой песню, поэт ... )

Web links

• Sergei Urusevsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Sergei Urussewski at kino-teatr.ru (Russian)