Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).
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Sergei Yutkevich

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- Name
- Sergei Yutkevich
- Birth Name
- Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich
- Born
- 28 December 1904
- Birthplace
- Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
- Died
- 23 April 1985
- Place of death
- Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic · Soviet Union
- Fields
- socialist realism
- Education
- Vkhutemas
- Honours
- Hero of Socialist Labour · Order of the October Revolution · People's Artist of the USSR · Order of the Red Banner of Labour · Order of Friendship of Peoples · Medal For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945
- Languages
- Russian
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).
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Biography
Biography
Sergei Yutkevich studied at Vkhutemas. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are socialist realism. Employment is recorded with Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Work by Sergei Yutkevich is recorded in the collections of Harvard Film Archive. Distinctions recorded are Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

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For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Zentralbild Gahlbeck 13.6.1960 2. Arbeiterfestspiele des FDGB. Filmforum und Filmball zu den Arbeiterfestspielen in Aue. Das Filmforum und der Filmball hatte am 11.6.1960 viele Hundert in das Wismut-Kulturhaus in Aue gelockt. Zahlreiche
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Key facts
• Name — Sergei Yutkevich • Birth Name — Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich • Born — 28 December 1904 • Birthplace — Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire • Died — 23 April 1985 • Place of death — Moscow, RSFSR, USSR • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1925–1980
Life and career
Life and career
• Illustration — Memorial to Sergei Yutkevich on wall of building in Moscow, where he lived He began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. Later he helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the 1920s and began directing in 1928. His films often were cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics. He won Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in Poland in 1966. Of his later films Lenin in Paris is among the best known. In 1959, 1961 and 1967 respectively, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival, the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival and the President of the Jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. He died on 23 April 1985 in Moscow.
Filmography
Filmography
• Lace (1928) • Golden Mountains (1931) • Counterplan (1932) (together with Fridrikh Ermler and Lev Arnshtam) • The Miners (1937) • The Man with the Gun (1938) • Yakov Sverdlov (1940) • Hello Moscow! (1945) • Light over Russia (1947) • Three Encounters (1948) (together with Aleksandr Ptushko and Vsevolod Pudovkin) • Przhevalsky (1951) • The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953) • Othello (1955) • Stories About Lenin (1957) • Bath • Lenin in Poland (1965) • Subject for a Short Story (1969) • Mayakovskiy smeyotsya (1975) • Lenin in Paris (1981) (together with Leonid Eidlin)
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Identity
Sergei Yutkevich is recorded as screenwriter, actor, director, professor and scenographer. Career and activity. His work is associated with socialist realism. He was employed by Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He belonged to USSR Union of Writers, Association of Filmmakers of the USSR and NKVD Song and Dance Ensemble.
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1904
Sergei Yutkevich born at Saint Petersburg.
1985
Sergei Yutkevich died at Moscow.
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Sergei Yutkevich received Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the October Revolution, People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".
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