Sergei Gerasimov
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 21, 1906, Kundravy, Urals, Russian Empire
- Died
- November 26, 1985
- Movies
- 53
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1987 | Just Life... | (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Lev Tolstoy | Lev Tolstoi |
| 1982 | Sergey Bondarchuk | Self |
| 1979 | VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession | |
| 1976 | Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life | Himself |
| 1975 | Daughters-Mothers | Pyotr Nikanorovich Vorobyev |
| 1974 | Karlovy Vary Promenades | Self |
| 1973 | Oh, Cinema, Cinema! | Self |
| 1970 | One Hour With Kozintsev | Self |
| 1967 | The Journalist | Alexei Kolesnikov |
| 1962 | Men and Beasts | Lvov-Shcherbatsky |
| 1959 | Stars Meet in Moscow | Self |
| 1941 | Masquerade | |
| 1934 | Wake Lena Up | |
| 1931 | Alone | Village Chairman |
| 1929 | Fragment of an Empire | |
| 1929 | The New Babylon | Lutro, the journalist |
| 1927 | The Club of the Big Deed | Medoks, opportunist |
| 1927 | Chuzhoy pidzhak | Skalkovskiy |
| 1926 | The Overcoat | Yaryzhka, card sharp |
| 1926 | The Devil's Wheel | The Question Man |
| 1925 | Мишки против Юденича | Spy |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1984 | Lev Tolstoy | Director, Screenplay |
| 1981 | At the Beginning of Glorious Days | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | The Youth of Peter | Director, Writer |
| 1976 | The Red and the Black | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Daughters-Mothers | Director |
| 1973 | The Love of Mankind | Director, Screenplay |
| 1970 | By the Lake | Director, Writer |
| 1967 | The Journalist | Director, Writer |
| 1962 | Men and Beasts | Director, Writer |
| 1958 | The Memory of the Heart | Screenplay |
| 1957 | Quiet Flows the Don | Director, Writer |
| 1957 | Road of Truth | Writer |
| 1957 | The Wind Rose | Director |
| 1955 | Nadezhda | Director, Writer |
| 1953 | Velikoye proshchaniye | Director |
| 1952 | The Country Doctor | Director |
| 1951 | The New China | Director |
| 1948 | The Young Guard | Director, Writer |
| 1946 | Moscow Music Hall | Director, Writer |
| 1946 | Verochka | Director |
| 1945 | Berlin Conference | Director |
| 1945 | Crimean Conference | Director |
| 1944 | The Ural Front | Director, Screenplay |
| 1943 | The Invincible | Screenplay, Director |
| 1941 | Masquerade | Director, Writer |
| 1941 | Chapayev is with Us | Writer |
| 1939 | The New Teacher | Director, Writer |
| 1938 | Komsomolsk | Director, Writer |
| 1936 | The Brave Seven | Director, Screenplay |
| 1934 | Do I Love You? | Director, Writer |
| 1930 | Twenty Two Misfortunes | Director |
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