Sergey Gerasimov

People’s Artist of the USSR, Lenin Prize and USSR State Prize Laureate A director, scriptwriter, actor Sergey Аpollina?riyevich Gerasimov was born on 21 May 1906 in Kundravy, Chelyabiskaya region.He studied at the Leningrad Art School, in 1928 graduated from the drama department of the Leningrad Performance Art Institute.Since 1924 began to act in films, then became director’s assistant in the creative team “FEKS”.He was the director of the Victory Day parade, held on 24 June 1945 in Moscow at the Red Square to mark the victory over Nazi Germany.He staged several performances at the Film Actor Theatre-Studio.He was an academician of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, doctor of Fine Arts, professor of VGIK.A lot of time and efforts he gave to the pedagogical activity. It was Gerasimov who introduced an innovative idea of joint teaching of actors and directors. Among his students were: Sergey Bondarchuk, Lev Kulidzhanov, Tatyana Lioznova, Inna Makarova, Nonna Mordyukova, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Nikolay Gubenko, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikolay Eryomenko, Larisa Udovichenko, Natalya Аrinbasarova, Sergey Nikonenko, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Zhanna Bolotova, Natalya Bondarchuk, Natalya Belokhvostikova, Vadim Spiridonov, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Talgat Nigmatulin, Zurab Kipshidze and many others. He invited mostly his students to act in his films. In 1986 VGIK was named after C.A. Gerasimov.Sergey Аpollina?riyevich Gerasimov died on 26 November 1985.



People’s Artist of the USSR (1948)
The USSR State Prize Laureate (1941, 1949, 1951, 1971)
Lenin Komsomol Prize Laureate (1970)
Hero of Socialist Labour (1974)
Lenin Prize Laureate (1984)

The All-Union Film Festival Laureate for “The Best Director”, 1958
The All-Union Film Festival Laureate for “The Best Feature Film”, 1958
The All-Union Film Festival Laureate for “The Best Feature Film”, 1973
The All-Union Film Festival Laureate in “Special Prize for directors”, 1981
The All-Union Film Festival Laureate in “The Main Special Prizes”, 1985

The Teacher (the author), 1940
Today (the author and director), 1940
Dva schastya (the author), 1946
The gray-haired girl (production), 1952

As an actor:
The Devil’s Wheel, 1926
The Cloak, 1926
Union of the Great Cause, 1927
Somebody else’s jacket, 1927
New Babylon, 1929
A Fragment Of The Empire, 1929
Alone, 1931
The Deserter, 1933
Wake up Lenochka, 1934
Granitsa, 1935
Komsomolsk, 1938
Masquerade, 1941
The Men and the Beasts, 1962
The Journalist, 1967
By The Lake, 1969
Dochki-materi, 1974
Lev Tolstoy, 1984
As a director:
Twenty two Misfortunes, 1929
The Forest, 1932
Seven Brave Spirits, 1936
Komsomolsk, 1938
The Teacher, 1939
Masquerade, 1941
Invincible, 1942
The Mainland, 1944
Young Guard, 1948
Selskiy vrach, 1951
And Quiet Flows the Don, 1958
The Men and the Beasts, 1962
The Journalist, 1967
By the Lake, 1969
Lyubit cheloveka, 1972
Dochki-materi, 1974
The Red and the Black, 1976
At the Beginning of Glorious Days, 1980
The Youth of Peter the Great, 1980
Lev Tolstoy, 1984
As a scriptwriter:
The Forest, 1932
Komsomolsk, 1938
The Teacher, 1939
Masquerade, 1941
The Mainland, 1944
Young Guard, 1948
The Road of Truth, 1956
Memory of the Heart, 1958
The Men and the Beasts, 1962
The Journalist, 1967
By the Lake, 1969
Lyubit cheloveka, 1972
The Red and the Black, 1976
At the Beginning of Glorious Days, 1980
The Youth of Peter the Great, 1980
Lev Tolstoy, 1984
He also shot documentaries: “The New China”, “The New Beijing”, “This is satellite”.