Sergei Gerasimov
Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters.
The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. 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. In his last movie Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergei Gerasimov (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 4.012 |
Birthday | 1906-05-21 |
Place of Birth | Kundravy, Urals, Russian Empire |
Also Known As | Sergey Gerasimov, Sergueï Guerassimov, Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov, Sergej Apollinarievič Gerasimov, Сергей Аполлинариевич Герасимов, С. Герасимов, |
1975
Daughters-Mothers
4.3/5
The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter f...
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Daughters-Mothers
1934
Wake Lena Up
4/1
Lenochka dreams about cowboys and indians while her brother plays tricks on her while she sleeps. The story of a little schoolgirl who was always late...
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Wake Lena Up
1987
Just Life...
0/0
About the creative path and pedagogical activity of the Soviet film director and actor S.A. Gerasimov.
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Just Life...
1984
Lev Tolstoy
4.2/6
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see...
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Lev Tolstoy
1959
Stars Meet in Moscow
0/0
Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign acto...
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Stars Meet in Moscow
1929
Fragment of an Empire
5.8/21
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a d...
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Fragment of an Empire
1929
The New Babylon
6/22
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...
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The New Babylon
1926
The Overcoat
5.3/19
Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".
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The Overcoat
1967
The Journalist
5.4/5
A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author...
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The Journalist
1941
Masquerade
5/6
Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another...
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Masquerade
1926
The Devil's Wheel
5.3/8
Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, compl...
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The Devil's Wheel
1962
Men and Beasts
5.6/9
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the di...
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Men and Beasts
1927
Chuzhoy pidzhak
0/0
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Chuzhoy pidzhak
1927
The Club of the Big Deed
5.2/10
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's...
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The Club of the Big Deed
1970
One Hour With Kozintsev
0/0
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One Hour With Kozintsev
1976
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
0/0
A semi-documentary biography film about the life and work of Soviet film actor Pyotr Aleynikov. Includes newsreels from the 1930s, footage from films...
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Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
1973
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
0/0
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