Gleb Panfilov

Biography

Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023; Magnitogorsk) was a Soviet and Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova. His first film "No Path Through Fire" won the Golden Leopard at the 22nd Locarno International Film Festival (1969). He also won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival (1987) for the film "The Theme". 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 as Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova (1983) and Mother (1989). Vassa won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival and Russia's State Prize. He won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Theme. Despite the hardships of the 1990s Panfilov was committed to directing The Romanovs: An Imperial Family, an epic story of the Romanov sainthood. 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 that did not feature his wife in a leading…

Directed

1. The Beginning (1970) — Director
2. No Path Through Fire (1967) — Director
3. Vassa (1983) — Director
4. The Theme (1979) — Director
5. Mother (1990) — Director
6. I Wish to Speak (1976) — Director
7. The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000) — Director
8. 100 Minutes (2021) — Director
9. The First Circle (2006) — Director
10. Valentina (1980) — Director
11. People's Police (1958) — Director
12. Nina Melovizinova (1962) — Director
13. Regain Our Ranks! (1959) — Director
14. Not Killed in the War (1962) — Director
15. Aquitaine Lioness (2013) — Director
16. Hamlet (1989) — Director
17. The Kurt Clausewitz Case (1964) — Director
18. On the Set of «Andrey Rublev» (1967) — Director
19. Case at the Station Krechetovka (1964) — Director
20. Lie for Salvation (2015) — Director
21. Nylon Jacket (1958) — Director
22. Keep Forever (2007) — Director
23. Audience (2019) — Director
24. Guilty Without Guilt (2008) — Director

Also appeared in

1. He Swears a Lot (2005)
2. Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик (2015) — Self