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Ivan Pyryev
Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (17 November 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awar…
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (17 November 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry. Pyryev was born in Kamen-na-Obi, in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Altai Krai, Russia). His early career included acting on stage directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold in The Forest and by Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletcult Theatre production The Mexican. Pyryev also acted in Eisenstein's first short film Glumov's Diary. Pyryev's early career included production jobs behind the camera, such as work for director Yuri Tarich. He débuted as a director in the age of silent film, with Strange Woman (1929). During the 1930s and 1940s Pyryev rivaled Grigori Aleksandrov as the country's most successful director of musical comedies, all of which starred his wife Marina Ladynina. Even during wartime, when the Soviet film industry had been evacuated to Alma-Ata, Pyryev made popular and light-hearted features. In Six O'Clock after the War is Over the Romantic characters (played by Ladynina and Yevgeny Samoilov), when separated by war, arrange a date at 6 PM on the Victory Day, and the victory celebrations are shown towards the end of the film (which was released in November 1944).
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2016
Legends of Cinema
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1969
The Brothers Karamazov
Movie Director
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1965
Light of a Distant Star
Movie Director
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1962
Our Mutual Friend
Movie Director
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1961
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross
Movie Creative Producer
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1961
Sovershenno seryozno
Movie Creative Producer
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1961
История с пирожками
Movie Creative Producer
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1961
Приятного аппетита
Movie Creative Producer
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1961
How Robinson Was Created
Movie Creative Producer
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1960
White Nights
Movie Director
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1958
The Idiot
Movie Director
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1954
Devotion
Movie Director
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1951
Youth Sports Festival
Movie Art Department Coordinator
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1951
Friendship Triumphs
Movie Writer
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1950
Cossacks of the Kuban
Movie Director
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1947
Tale of the Siberian Land
Movie Story
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1946
Rich Bride
Movie Director
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1944
Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War
Movie Director
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1943
1812
Movie Producer
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1942
The District Secretary
Movie Director
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1941
Swineherd and Shepherd
Movie Director
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1940
The Beloved
Movie Director
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1939
Tractor Drivers
Movie Director
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1936
Anna
Movie Director
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1933
Conveyor of Death
Movie Director
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1931
Turner Alekseev
Movie Screenplay
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1931
The Civil Servant
Movie Director
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1930
Be Like This
Movie Writer
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1929
The Other Woman
Movie Director
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1928
Torn-Off Sleeves
Movie Writer
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1928
Bulat-Batyr
Movie Assistant Director
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1926
Wings of a Serf
Movie First Assistant Director
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1923
Glumov's Diary
Movie Fascist Clown
