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Sergey Bondarchuk picture

Sergey Bondarchuk

Directing
Known For

74 Years Old

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.

Born

Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR on 25th September 1920

Died

20th October 1994

All Credits

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Ernst Schneller
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Quiet Flows the Don
Krasnov tábornok
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War and Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
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General Krasnov
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Martin
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
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selectionist (uncredited)
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Pierre Bezukhov
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Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko
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Admiral Ushakov
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Profession: Film Actor
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Tikhon Prokofiev
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self (archive)
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Self
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Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk