(21.5.1906, . Ekaterinburg - Nov 1985), . director, . actor, . People's Artist of USSR (1948), . Member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (1978), . Doctor of Arts (1967), . Hero of Socialist Labor (1974), . three times winner of the Stalin Prize (1941, . 1949, . 1951),
. He is married to actress T.F. Makarova. Educated at the Leningrad State Institute of Performing Arts (1928). In 1924 began work in the theater as an actor studio FEKS ( "Factory of Eccentric Actor"). In 1925 his debut in the film "The bears against Yudenich". He played in the films "Ferris wheel" (1926), "The Overcoat" (1926), "Buddy" (1926). As the director made his debut in 1931 with the movie "Forest". Supervised studio in Leningrad, where a film "Seven Brave Men (1936)," Komsomolsk "(1937)," Teacher "(1939). In 1943 joined the Communist Party (b). During the Great Patriotic War, a film about the heroic work of the home front: "Invincible" (1942) and "Big Land" (1944). Since 1944, the head of directing and acting workshop VGIK, Professor (1946). In 1946 he took off his two-part film based on AA. Fadeeva "Young Guard". The first version of the film was criticized Party bodies, and
Gerasimov immediately rebuilt it, taking into account "wishes" leadership. Written and directed the movie "Liberated China" (1950), which reached the heights of thoughtless glorification of the Communist Party. In 1950-58 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. After death. V. Stalin made the film "Quiet Flows the Don (1957-58)," The Lake "(1970)," Mothers and Daughters "(1975)," Youth of Peter "and" In the beginning of the glorious deeds "(1981) and others. In 1971 received the State Prize in 1984 - Lenin.
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