Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk ( Russian Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук , scientific. Transliteration Sergei Fedorovic Bondarčuk , Ukrainian Сергій Федорович Бондарчук , scientific transliteration. Serhiy Fedorovyč Bondarčuk , Serhiy Fedorowytsch Bondarchuk; * 25. September 1920 in Belosjorka, Kherson Gubernia , today Biloserka , Kherson Oblast ; † October 20, 1994 in Moscow ) was a Soviet and Russian film director , screenwriter and actor . His feature film War and Peace (1966) won the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards for best foreign language film.
He is the father of Fyodor Bondarchuk .
Life
Sergei Bondarchuk completed his acting studies in 1948; he studied at the Drama School in Rostov-on-Don and the Moscow Film School with Sergei Gerasimow and Tamara Makarova . In the same year he made his film debut in Gerassimov's The Young Guard . In 1952 he was awarded the Best Actor Award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for his leading role in Igor Savchenko's Broken Fetters ( Russian Тарас Шевченко ), about the life of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko . His portrayal of Othello in Sergei Jutkewitsch's film adaptation from 1956 is a romantically inclined title character who climbs from gentleness to frenzy. One of his first works abroad was the role of the Red Army soldier Fjodor in Roberto Rossellini's It was Night in Rome (1960).
Bondarchuk made his directorial debut in 1959 with today's classic Russian film Ein Menschenschicksal, based on the story of the same name by Mikhail Scholochow, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature . On the Moscow Film Festival for this he was awarded the Grand Prix .
His second outstanding directorial work is the lavish film adaptation of War and Peace based on the novel by Lev Tolstoy , which again won him the Grand Prize of the International Film Festival in Moscow in 1967 and the 1969 Oscar for best foreign language film. Bondarchuk can also be seen as an actor in Ein Menschenschicksal as well as in War and Peace .
In Italy he shot the international Italian-Soviet co-production Waterloo in 1970 . In 1977 he appeared in the GDR television production Ernst Schneller as General Sotow and was awarded the GDR Ernst Schneller Prize. His two-part epic Red Bells (1981–1983) about the revolutions in Mexico (1st part: Mexico in flames ) and Russia (2nd part: I saw the birth of a new world ) based on the biographically colored writings of John Reed is dynamic Mass scenes shaped. Mexico in Flames received the Grand Prize of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1982 .
Bondarchuk was one of the most important Soviet filmmakers. At the age of 32, he was the youngest actor ever to be honored as a People's Artist of the USSR . From 1971 he taught himself at the Moscow Film School and later was secretary of the Union of Filmmakers of the USSR. In 1981 he published a book called Desired Miracles . His daughters Natalja and Jelena are also actors, his son Fyodor Bondarchuk is a film director.
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1959: A Human Fate ( Судьба человека )
- 1966–1967: War and Peace ( Война и мир )
- 1970: Waterloo ( Ватерлоо )
- 1975: They fought for their homeland ( Они сражались за родину )
- 1977: The steppe ( Степь )
- 1982: 10 days that shook the world I ( Mexico in flames ) ( Красные колокола. 1. Мексика в огне )
- 1983: 10 days that shook the world II ( I saw the birth of a new world ) ( Красные колокола. 2. Я видел рождение нового мира )
- 1986: Boris Godunow ( Борис Годунов )
- 1992: The silent Don ( Тихий Дон ), a seven-part television production (RUS / GB / I)
actor
- 1948: The Young Guard ( Молодая гвардия )
- 1948: The true man ( Повесть о настоящем человеке )
- 1948: The world should blossom ( Мичурин )
- 1952: Broken shackles ( Тарас Шевченко )
- 1953: Ships storm bastions ( Корабли штурмуют бастионы )
- 1955: The Cricket ( Попрыгунья )
- 1955: Othello - The Moor of Venice ( Отелло )
- 1959: A Human Fate (Судьба человека)
- 1960: Serjoscha ( Серёжа )
- 1960: It was night in Rome ( В Риме была ночь )
- 1966–1967: War and Peace ( Война и мир )
- 1969: The Battle of the Neretva ( Битва на Неретве )
- 1970: Uncle Vanya ( Дядя Ваня )
- 1974: choice of destination ( Выбор цели )
- 1975: They fought for their homeland ( Они сражались за родину )
- 1977: Ernst Schneller
Awards and honors
- Stalin Prize (1952) for the leading role in the film Blasted Fetters
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1952)
- Moscow International Film Festival (1959)
- Lenin Prize (1960) for the film A Human Fate
- Order of Lenin (1967, 1980)
- Legion of Honor (1967)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1970)
- Order of the October Revolution (1974)
- Hero of Socialist Labor (1980)
- Taras Shevchenko Prize (1982)
- State Prize of the USSR (1984)
- Order of the Great Patriotic War (1985)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986)
In addition, Bondarchuk's directorial work War and Peace won an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 1968 as a Soviet contribution and the Golden Globe Award in the same category in 1969 .
Web links
- Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Literature by and about Sergei Fjodorowitsch Bondarchuk in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sergei Bondarchuk's biography. Retrieved July 6, 2018 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bondarchuk, Sergei Fyodorovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бондарчук, Сергей Фёдорович (Russian); Бондарчук, Сергій Федорович (Ukrainian); Bondarchuk, Serhiy Fedorovich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet director and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belozjorka, Kherson Governorate , today Biloserka , Kherson Oblast |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1994 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russia |