Sergei Gerasimov

Sergei Gerasimov studied at Russian State Institute of Performing Arts. Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina is recorded as having studied under Sergei Gerasimov. The recorded working language is Russian. Employment is recorded with Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Positions recorded include deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

• Name — Sergei Gerasimov • Born — 21 May 1906 • Birthplace — Kundravy, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 26 November 1985 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • actor • Years Active — 19241985 • Spouse — Tamara Makarova

Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. He also taught acclaimed actor Georgiy Zhzhonov at the Leningrad Theatrical School. In his last film Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow. A rare glimpse of Sergei Gerasimov can be found in a one and a half minute behind the scenes documentary featured as part of the Coming From The Movies Set series of Soviet film promos. In this piece Gerasimov can be seen in Norilsk on the set of his film The Love of Mankind. It's a story of two young architects struggling to build a new town in the Polar Regions. The film stars Ivan Negonov as the director of an Iron and Steel Works, Anatoly Solonitsyn as architect Kolmykov, Lyubov Virolainen as architect Arkhipova; and can be found as an extra on the 2003 DVD release of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1974 film The Mirror.

• Seven Brave Men (1936) • Komsomolsk (1938) • The New Teacher (1939) • Masquerade (1941) • The Ural Front (1944) • The Young Guard (1948) • The Village Doctor (1951) • The New China (1952) • Great Mourning (1953) • And Quiet Flows the Don (1958) • Men and Beasts (1962) • The Journalist (1967) • By the Lake (1969) • The Love of Mankind (1972) • Daughters-Mothers (1974) • Red and Black (1976 film (1976) • The Youth of Peter the Great (1980) • At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1980) • Lev Tolstoy (1984)

• Mishki versus Yudenich (1925) • The Devil's Wheel (1926) • The Overcoat (1926) • The Club of the Big Deed (1927) • Somebody Else's Coat (1927) • Little Brother (1927) • Fragment of an Empire (1929) • The New Babylon (1929) • Alone (1931) • The Deserter (1933) • Masquerade (1941) • Daughters-Mothers (1974) • Lev Tolstoy (1984)

He was employed by Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography and Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Recorded position is deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. He belonged to USSR Union of Writers and Association of Filmmakers of the USSR.

Sergei Gerasimov is recorded as having received USSR State Prize, Hero of Socialist Labour and Order of the Red Star.