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Marlen Khutsiyev
Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films f…
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Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odesa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward. Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by the authorities, forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence. In 1978, Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK. His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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- 2023
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2020
A Georgian Toast
Movie Self
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2019
The Gift
Movie Self
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2019
Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
Movie Self
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2018
Into_nation of Big Odesa
Movie Himself / Narrator
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2017
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
Movie Self
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2015
Khutsiev. Action Starts!
Movie
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2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Movie Director
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2012
Alexander Belyavsky. Fox's Personal File
Movie Self - Режиссер
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2001
People of 1941
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1993
To Remember
TV show Narrator
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1993
Infinity
Movie Director
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1985
Dzhura - Hunter from Min-Arkhar
TV show Screenplay
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1983
Postscript
Movie Director
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1979
Allegro with Fire
Movie Producer
- 1979
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1978
On the Day of the Holiday
Movie Ramzes
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1974
And Still I Believe
Movie Director
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1971
The Scarlet Sail of Paris
Movie Director
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1970
It Was In May
Movie Director
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1969
Shine, Shine, My Star
Movie Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)
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1968
Intervention
Movie Главнокомандующий
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1967
Strong with Spirit
Movie Supervising Art Director
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1967
July Rain
Movie Director
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1965
I Am Twenty
Movie Director
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1958
The Two Fedors
Movie Director
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1958
Youth Street
Movie Writer
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1956
Spring on Zarechnaya Street
Movie Director
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1955
Lyana
Movie Assistant Director
