Georgy Natanson
| Georgy Natanson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson May 21, 1921 Kazan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter |
Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (Russian: Гео́ргий Григо́рьевич Натансо́н; born May 23, 1921, Kazan) is a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Directed by Mosfilm.People's Artist of Russia (1994), winner of the USSR State Prize (1977).
Georgy Natanson was born May 23, 1921 in Kazan. His mother was a singer, his father, Grigory Nathanson, was an economist and was killed in the army in 1941 at Yelnya).
Since 1941 to 1943 he worked as an assistant director of the Central United Film Studio (CUFS) in Alma-Ata, which was also evacuated in a film studio Mosfilm the Great Patriotic War. In 1944 he graduated from the VGIK in the studio of Lev Kuleshov and Anna Khokhlova. Diploma work - The Storm for the film's story by O. Henry. His career began at the studio Mosfilm in 1941 as an assistant director and later the second director of such classics of Russian cinema as Ivan Pyryev (Secretary of the Raikom and Six P.M.), Alexander Dovzhenko (Michurin), Aleksandr Ptushko (Sadko), Boris Barnet (Annushka), Andrey Tarkovsky (Ivan's Childhood).
In 1956, seeing the legendary spectacle An Unusual Concert, Georgy Natanson already as auteur-director puts together with the Sergey Obraztsov satirical film Heavenly Creatures, marked by the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival in Venice. The following year, appears the film White Acacia based on the eponymous operetta of Isaak Dunayevsky. In 1960, screens out a shot with Anatoly Efros film Noisy Day on the play by Viktor Rozov, Finding Joy. The film was a great success, for two months, it looked more than 18 million viewers.
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