Sergei Gerasimov

Biography

Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (21 May 1906 – 26 November 1985) was one of the most reputable Soviet film directors and screenwriters. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. At first he appeared in Kozintsev and Trauberg films, such as The Overcoat and The New Babylon. Later, he was commissioned to produce screen versions of the literary classics of Socialist realism. His epic screenings of Alexander Fadeyev's The Young Guard (1948) and Mikhail Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don (1957–58) were extolled by the authorities as exemplary. During several decades of their teaching in the VGIK Gerasimov and his wife Tamara Makarova prepared many generations of Russian actors. In his last movie Gerasimov played Leo Tolstoy, while Makarova was cast as Tolstoy's wife. Gerasimov is buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery of Moscow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergei Gerasimov (film director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Directed

1. Quiet Flows the Don (1957) — Director
2. The Young Guard (1948) — Director
3. The Youth of Peter (1981) — Director
4. The Brave Seven (1936) — Director
5. Men and Beasts (1962) — Director
6. Lev Tolstoy (1984) — Director
7. By the Lake (1970) — Director
8. Masquerade (1941) — Director
9. Daughters-Mothers (1975) — Director
10. The Red and the Black (1976) — Director
11. The Invincible (1943) — Director
12. The Journalist (1967) — Director
13. The Love of Mankind (1973) — Director
14. The New Teacher (1939) — Director
15. Moscow Music Hall (1946) — Director
16. The Wind Rose (1957) — Director
17. At the Beginning of Glorious Days (1981) — Director
18. The Ural Front (1944) — Director
19. The Country Doctor (1952) — Director
20. Komsomolsk (1938) — Director
21. The New China (1951) — Director
22. Nadezhda (1955) — Director
23. Crimean Conference (1945) — Director
24. Velikoye proshchaniye (1953) — Director
25. Do I Love You? (1934) — Director
26. The Red and the Black (1976) — Director
27. Berlin Conference (1945) — Director
28. Верочка (1946) — Director
29. Twenty Two Misfortunes (1930) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The New Babylon (1929) — Lutro, the journalist
2. Fragment of an Empire (1929)
3. The Overcoat (1926) — Yaryzhka, card sharp
4. Alone (1931) — Village Chairman
5. Men and Beasts (1962) — Lvov-Shcherbatsky
6. The Club of the Big Deed (1927) — Medoks, opportunist
7. The Devil's Wheel (1926) — The Question Man
8. Lev Tolstoy (1984) — Lev Tolstoi
9. Masquerade (1941)
10. Daughters-Mothers (1975) — Pyotr Nikanorovich Vorobyev
11. The Journalist (1967) — Alexei Kolesnikov
12. Wake Lena Up (1934)
13. Just Life... (1987) — (archive footage)
14. Chuzhoy pidzhak (1927) — Skalkovskiy
15. Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life (1976) — Himself
16. Karlovy Vary Promenades (1974) — Self
17. Stars Meet in Moscow (1959) — Self
18. One Hour With Kozintsev (1970) — Self
19. Oh, Cinema, Cinema! (1973) — Self
20. VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession (1979)
21. Sergey Bondarchuk (1982) — Self
22. Мишки против Юденича (1925) — Spy
23. Legends of Cinema (2016) — Self (archive footage)