Sergei Gerasimov
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Birth Place
Russia
Born
May 21, 1906
Died
November 28, 1985
Cause of Death
Heart Attack
Biography
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Former member of the experimental Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEX) who turned to directing in the early 1930s. Gerasimov's films eschewed his earlier avant-garde leanings and tended to conform with the prevailing dicta of socialist realism. He is best known for "The Young Guard" (1948) and his epic adaptation of Mikhail Sholokov's "And Quiet Flows the Don" (1957)....
Biography
Former member of the experimental Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEX) who turned to directing in the early 1930s. Gerasimov's films eschewed his earlier avant-garde leanings and tended to conform with the prevailing dicta of socialist realism. He is best known for "The Young Guard" (1948) and his epic adaptation of Mikhail Sholokov's "And Quiet Flows the Don" (1957).
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Leo Tolstoy
(1984)
Director
And Quiet Flows The Don
(1960)
Director
Cast (Feature Film)
Leo Tolstoy
(1984)
Leo Tolstoy
The Deserter
(1933)
Writer (Feature Film)
And Quiet Flows The Don
(1960)
Screenwriter
Life Events
1925
Film acting debut
1930
First film as director
1944
Joined Communist party, appointed head of documentary film studios
