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Grigori Chukhrai

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1921-2001) · Russia · On the map · Directors · Died at 80

Grigory Naumovich Chukhray was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. For his body of work, which included the film Ballad of a Soldier (1959), he was awarded the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.

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A life in dates

2001Died28 October 20011993To RememberSeries, Narrator1992Mortal Enemies: From Death and Survival in StalingradFilm, Director1985About WarFilmI'll Teach You to DreamFilm, 1985Director, WriterOne Day of MosfilmFilm, 19851979Life Is BeautifulFilm, Director1978The MireFilm, Director, Writer1970MemoryFilm, Director, Writer1968Evgeniy UrbanskiyFilm1967My Heart Is in the HighlandsFilm, Producer1965There Was an Old CoupleFilm, Director1962BAFTA Award for Best FilmAward1961Clear SkiesFilm, Director1959Ballad of a SoldierFilm, Director, Writer1956The Forty-FirstFilm, Director1921Born23 May 1921

People around Grigori

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Filmography 15

24 credits on file

Television 1

Media & music

Awards

BAFTA Award for Best Film1962
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
People's Artist of the USSR
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Lenin Prize
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Bodil Award for Best Non-American Film
Targa d'Oro
Nika Lifetime Achievement Award
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Zhukov Medal
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Order of the Partisan Star
Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941
Order of Labour
Wound stripe
Prize of the President of the Russian Federation
Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"
Guards unit
Special Jury Prize
Nika Award

About this person

Country
Russia
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1921 to 2001 · aged 80

In the same film or series as Grigori

Yevgeniy YevstigneyevAlso in Ballad of a Soldier (1959)Lev BorisovAlso in Ballad of a Soldier (1959)