Mikhail Kalatozov

This article is about the film director. For his grandson and film director, see Mikheil Kalatozishvili (born 1959).

Mikhail Kalatozov born Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Georgian: მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, Russian: Михаил Калатозов) (28 December 1903–27 March 1973) was a Georgian/Russian film director. Born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), he studied economics before starting his film career as an actor and later cinematographer.

He directed several documentary films, including Salt for Svanetia (1930), but was forced to withdraw from his profession after his film Nail in the Boot (1931) was banned by Stalinist censors. During World War II he directed several propaganda films and worked as a cultural attaché at the Soviet embassy in the United States.

Mikhail Kalatozov grave

During the 1950s he directed several other films. His four final features were The Cranes Are Flying (1957), The Unsent Letter (1959), I Am Cuba (1964), and The Red Tent (1971) are among his most famous works.^[1]

Filmography

• 1928 Their Empire; co-directed with Nutsa Gogoberidze
• 1930 The Blind Woman; lost film
• 1930 Salt for Svanetia; documentary
• 1931 Nail in the Boot
• 1939 Courage
• 1941 Valery Chkalov
• 1942 Invincible
• 1950 Plot of the Doomed
• 1953 Hostile Whirlwinds
• 1954 True Friends
• 1955 The First Echelon
• 1957 The Cranes Are Flying
• 1959 The Unsent Letter
• 1964 I Am Cuba
• 1971 The Red Tent

References

1. ^ Chansel, Dominique (2001). Europe on-screen: cinema and the teaching of history. Council of Europe. pp. 53. ISBN 9789287145314. 

External links

• Official site of Mikhail Kalatozov Fund
• Mikhail Kalatozov at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Kalatozov, Mikhail
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Date of birth	1903
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Date of death	1973
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