Director
Marlen Khutsiyev
Born October 4, 1925 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Died March 19, 201911 films
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.
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Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odesa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward.
Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by the authorities, forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence. In 1978, Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK.
His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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The best way into Marlen Khutsiyev's work
First watchI Am Twenty19657.3Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
11 films as director- 2013Venice 70: Future ReloadedDirector
- 2001People of 1941Director
- 1993InfinityDirector
- 1983PostscriptDirector
- 1974And Still I BelieveDirector
- 1971The Scarlet Sail of ParisDirector
- 1970It Was In MayDirector
- 1967July RainDirector
- 1965I Am TwentyDirector
- 1958The Two FedorsDirector
- 1956Spring on Zarechnaya StreetDirector