Efim Dzigan
Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (14 December 189831 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, and People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
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Efim Dzigan
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- Name
- Yefim Dzigan
- Born
- 14 December 1898
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russian Empire
- Died
- 31 December 1981
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Actor, film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Fields
- socialist realism
- Honours
- Stalin Prize · Order of Lenin · Order of the October Revolution · People's Artist of the USSR · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945
- Languages
- Russian
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Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (14 December 189831 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter, and People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
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• Name — Yefim Dzigan • Born — 14 December 1898 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russian Empire • Died — 31 December 1981 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Actor, film director, screenwriter
Director
Director
• First Cornet Streshnev (1928, co-directed with Mikheil Chiaureli) • The Sailors of Kronstadt (1936) • If War Comes Tomorrow (1938) • Jambyl (1952) • Torrents of Steel (1967)
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Efim Dzigan is recorded as film director, actor, theatre director and screenwriter.
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1981
Efim Dzigan died at Moscow.
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Efim Dzigan received Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
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• Two Orders of Lenin (1936 – for movie The Sailors of Kronstadt, 1978) • Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1941) – for movies The Sailors of Kronstadt and If War Comes Tomorrow • Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1958) • People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966) • Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1967, 1973) • People's Artist of the USSR (1969)
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1- socialist realismMovement
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