Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev

Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (22. 03. 1905 - 11. 05. 1973), director, screenwriter.
Born in Kiev. In 1919, while still a schoolboy, along with their peers, Sergei Yutkevich and Alexei Kapler - organized in Kiev experimental theater 'Harlequin', which existed for four months. In 1919-1920 he studied at the Kyiv School of Painting, 1920-1922 - in the Petrograd Academy of Fine Arts. Was an artist in the Kiev theater Solovtsova have to. Mardzhanov. In 1931 in Petrograd, together with L. Trauberg organized creative association 'FEKS' (Factory of Eccentric Actor), where he staged performances of 'Marriage', 'Foreign Trade at the Eiffel Tower'. Since 1924 works in the film - in c / cr 'Lenfilm'. Parallel to stage performances in Leningrad's Academic Theater. A. S. Pushkin ( 'King Lir'-1943,' Otello'-1943, 'Gamlet'-1954), and the Leningrad Theater of Comedy. He taught at FEKS (1922-1932), VGIK (1941-1963), with a SRW / st 'Lenfilm' (1965-1967). Author of several books and research. Co-writer to a number of his films.
Winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the category 'Third Prize for feature films of 1958. Winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the category 'Special Award for 1964. Specials Venice Film Festival prize for 1964.
People's Artist of the USSR (1964), Laureate of State. Prizes of the USSR (1941, 1948) and Lenin Prize (1965).
FILMOGRAPHY:
1926 Ferris wheel ( 'sailor with the' Aurora ') director
1926 Overcoat director
1927 UNION great cause (P. V. D.) director
. 1929 New Babylon ( 'Storm of the sky') director, screenwriter
. 1931 ONE director, screenwriter
. 1934 YOUTH MAXIMA ( 'Bolshevik') director, screenwriter
. 1937 RETURN OF MAXIM director, screenwriter
. 1938 Vyborg director, screenwriter
. 1943 OUR GIRLS (BCS 2 nd novel 'One night') director
. 1943 YOUNG FRITZ director
. 1945 Ordinary People director, screenwriter
. 1947 PIE director
. 1951 BELINSKY director, screenwriter
. 1957 DON QUIXOTE director
. 1964 Hamlet director, screenwriter
. 1970 KING LEAR director, screenwriter