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Ivan Pyryev

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1901-1968) · Russia · On the map · Directors · Died at 66

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and pedagogue remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema.

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A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 108 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

1968Died7 February 19681962Our Mutual FriendFilm, Director, Writer1960White NightsFilm, Director, Writer1954DevotionFilm, Director, Writer1950Grand Officer of the Order of the White LionAwardCossacks of the KubanFilm, 1950Director1947Tale of the Siberian LandFilm, Director, Writer1944Six O'Clock in the Evening After the WarFilm, Director1942The District SecretaryFilm, Director1940The BelovedFilm, Director1939Tractor DriversFilm, Director1933Conveyor of DeathFilm, Director1930Be Like ThisFilm, Writer1929The Other WomanFilm, Director1923Glumov's DiaryFilm, Fascist Clown1901Born4 November 1901

People around Ivan

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Filmography 24

42 credits on file

Television 1

Media & music

Awards

Grand Officer of the Order of the White Lion1950
Stalin Prize
Order of Lenin
People's Artist of the USSR
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Cross of St. George
Cross of St. George 3rd class
Cross of St. George 4th class
Order of the White Lion
State Stalin Prize, 1st degree
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

About this person

He was awarded six Stalin Prizes, served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954-57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.

Country
Russia
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1968 · aged 66

In the same film or series as Ivan

Irina SkobtsevaAlso in White Nights (1960)Joris IvensAlso in Friendship Triumphs (1951)Mikhail PugovkinAlso in 1812 (1943)Mikhail RommAlso in Conveyor of Death (1933)

Directors from Russia 1

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