Biography
Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.
Directed
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Waterloo (1970) — Director
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War and Peace (1968) — Director
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Fate of a Man (1959) — Director
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966) — Director
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) — Director
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They Fought for Their Motherland (1975) — Director
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) — Director
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967) — Director
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Boris Godunov (1986) — Director
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Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World (1982) — Director
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Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames (1982) — Director
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Quiet Flows The Don (2006) — Director
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The Steppe (1978) — Director
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Quiet Flows the Don (2006) — Director
Also appeared in
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War and Peace (1968) — Pierre Bezukhov
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Fate of a Man (1959) — Sokolov
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War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966) — Pierre Bezukhov
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War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) — Pierre Bezukhov
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They Fought for Their Motherland (1975) — pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev
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War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) — Pierre Bezukhov
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War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967) — Pierre Bezukhov
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The Battle of Neretva (1969) — Martin
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¡Qué Viva México! (1979) — Narrator (voice)
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Uncle Vanya (1970) — Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astrov
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Escape by Night (1960) — Fyodor Nazukov
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A Summer to Remember (1960) — Korostelov
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Boris Godunov (1986) — Boris Godunov
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The Young Guard (1948) — Comrade Valko
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Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World (1982)
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Admiral Ushakov (1953) — Tikhon Prokofyev
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Othello (1955) — Othello
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Attack from the Sea (1953) — Tikhon Prokofiev
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Story of a Real Man (1948)
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Quiet Flows The Don (2006) — General Krasnov
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The Steppe (1978) — Yemelyan
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Michurin (1949) — selectionist (uncredited)
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Silence of Doctor Ivens (1974) — Martin Evans
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Taras Shevchenko (1951) — Taras Shevchenko
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Unfinished Story (1955) — Yuri Yershov
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Drums of Fire (1990) — Selim
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The Grasshopper (1955) — Dr. Osip Dymov
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The Gadfly (1980) — Кардинал Монтанелли
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Dream of a Cossack (1951) — Semyon Tutarinov
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The Peaks of Zelengore (1976) — Profesor
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Father Sergius (1978) — Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
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The Golden Gates (1971) — Narrator (Voice)
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Profession: Film Actor (1980)
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Thunder Over Rus' (1992)
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Ivan Franko (1956) — Ivan Franko
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It Can Not Be Forgotten (1954) — Aleksandr Garmash
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Velvet Season (1978) — Richard Bradbury
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Take-Off (1979) — Narrator (voice)
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Soldiers Were Walking (1959) — Matvey Krylov - soldat
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Choice of Purpose (1975) — Igor Kurchatov