Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Kozintsev in 1958
Born	Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev (1905-03-22)22 March 1905 Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	11 May 1973(1973-05-11) (aged 68) Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1924 - 1971

Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григо́рий Миха́йлович Ко́зинцев; 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 in Kiev – 11 May 1973 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Two years later he was a member of the jury of the 5th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1971 he was the President of the Jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival.

Grigory Kozintsev was born in the family of a doctor, therapist and pediatrician Moses Isaakovich Kozintsev (1859-1930) and his wife Anna Grigorievna Lurie was from a rabbinical family from Kiev. His mother's sister was the well-known gynecologist and scientist-physician . The mother's brother was the dermatologist Alexander G. Lurie (1868-1954), a professor and chair of venereal skin diseases at the Kiev Postgraduate Medical Institute (1919-1954). The parents were married in 1896 in Kiev; in the same year, a dissertation was published in a separate edition by MD M.I. Kozintsev titled "Production of sulfuric matches in respect to sanitation" (sanitary-statistical research of sulfur-match factories Novozybkov district of the province of Chernigov, Starodub: Typography A.I. Kozintsev, 1896). MD M.I. Kozintsev also engaged in education and regional studies journalism, additionally he was author of the book "Alcoholism and the social struggle against it" (at the opening of Guardianship of sobriety, Starodub: Typography A.I. Kozintsev, 1896) and "Prince Nicholas D. Dolgorukov." (materials for the biography, Starodub: Typography A.I. Kozintsev, 1903). A number of medical works by M.I. Kozintsev for alcoholism treatment, clinic syphilitic arthropathy and other issues of clinical medicine were published in Russian and German health journals.