Sergei Yutkevich
Directing
- Born
- August 15, 1904 · St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- April 24, 1985 (age 80)
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.
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Sergei Yutkevich began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. He later 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's Best Director Award twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in Poland in 1966. Of his later films Lenin in Paris is among the best known.
Known for
Bed and Sofa
March 15, 1927
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
March 4, 1968
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
November 28, 1953
Behind Show Windows
April 29, 1956
The Humpbacked Horse
July 31, 1941
Lenin in Paris
November 1, 1981
Lenin in Poland
April 8, 1966
Othello
December 2, 1955
The Man with the Gun
January 1, 1938
Hello, Moscow!
June 6, 1945
Counterplan
November 7, 1932
Lace
June 1, 1928
Behind the camera44
- 1981Lenin in Paris Director, Writer
- 1976Mayakovsky Laughs Director, Writer
- 1969Subject for a Short Story Director
- 1968Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film Archival Footage Coordinator, Supervising Editor
- 1966Lenin in Poland Director, Screenplay
- 1962The Bath House Director, Screenplay
- 1960A Snow Fairy Tale Consulting Producer
- 1960Revenge Producer
- 1959Sombrero Producer
- 1958