- Gleb Panfilov
Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; born
21 May 1934 inMagnitogorsk ) is an internationally acclaimedRussia n film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife,Inna Churikova :* "
No Ford In the Fire " (1967, Pardo d'Oro of theLocarno International Film Festival ),
* "The Beginning" (1970, Silver Lion of theVenice Film Festival ),
* "I Wish to Speak " (1975);
* "The Theme " (1979, full version 1986, Golden Bear of theBerlin Film Festival ).In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to theatre directing, but also found time to adapt for the screen
Alexander Vampilov 's play "Valentina" (1981), as well asMaxim Gorky 's "Vassa Zheleznova" (1983) and "The Mother" (1989). "Vassa" won the top prize of theMoscow International Film Festival and Russia's State Prize.Despite the hardships of the 1990s, Panfilov was committed to directing "", an epic story of the Romanov martyrdom. The film, finally released in 2000, was a sort of family project involving his wife as well as children. It was also his first movie not starring Churikova.
In January 2006,
RTR TV aired Panfilov'sminiseries based onAlexander Solzhenitsyn 's novel "The First Circle ". The Nobel Prize-winning author helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film.References
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/who-is-who/article/cult/cul1-142.htm?text=%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2 Who Is Who in Modern Russian Culture]
* [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/krugosvet/article/7/7e/1006693.htm?text=%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2 Gleb Panfilov in Krugosvet Encyclopaedia]External links
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