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Mikhail Kalatozov

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1903-1973) · Directors · Died at 69

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Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov, born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema. He is known for his films The Cranes Are Flying and I Am Cuba, winning the Palme d'Or for the former at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

A life in dates

1973Died27 March 19731969The Red TentFilm, Director1964I Am CubaFilm, Director1958The Variegateds CaseFilm, Producer1957The Cranes Are FlyingFilm, Director1955The First EchelonFilm, Director1950Conspiracy of the DoomedFilm, Director1946Moscow Music HallFilm, Director1941Wings of VictoryFilm, Director1931The Nail in the BootFilm, Director1930Salt for SvanetiaFilm, Director1928Afghan Khan in TbilisiFilm, Director1927GiuliFilm, Writer1924Three LivesFilm1903Born15 December 1903

Also in Deutsch

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Filmography 27

Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик2015
CICafe «Izotop»Writer1977
TTThe Red TentDirector1969 · ★ 6.1
ICI Am CubaDirector1964 · ★ 7.8
LSLetter Never SentDirector1960 · ★ 7.1
TCThe Variegateds CaseProducer1958
TFThe Cranes Are FlyingDirector1957 · ★ 7.9
HWHostile WhirlwindsDirector1956
TEThe First EchelonDirector1955
TFTrue FriendsDirector1954
CDConspiracy of the DoomedDirector1950
MHMoscow Music HallDirector1946
TIThe InvincibleDirector, Writer1943
WVWings of VictoryDirector1941
COCourageDirector1939
TBThe Nail in the BootDirector1931
SSSalt for SvanetiaDirector1930
TWThe Blind WomanDirector1930
MTMoscow MXAT Theatre in TbilisiDirector1929
GBGypsy BloodWriter1928
TKTheir KingdomDirector1928
ATAfghan Khan in TbilisiDirector1928
GIGiuliWriter1927
HFHorse factoryDirector1927
OZOpening of the first turbine of ZahesiDirector1927
TMThe Case of the Murder of Tariel Mklavadze1925
TLThree Lives1924

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Awards

Stalin Prize
People's Artist of the USSR
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of the Red Star
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
People's artist of the Georgian SSR
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Palme d'Or
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

In common with Mikhail

Yevgeny YevtushenkoAlso in I Am Cuba (1964)Alexander VertinskyAlso in Conspiracy of the Doomed (1950)Yuri VizborAlso in The Red Tent (1969)Klara LuchkoAlso in Hostile Whirlwinds (1956)Arkady RaikinAlso in Wings of Victory (1941)Tatiana SamoilovaAlso in The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

About this person

Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov, born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema. He is known for his films The Cranes Are Flying and I Am Cuba, winning the Palme d'Or for the former at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival. Kalatozov received the State Stalin Prize in 1951. In 1969, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR.

Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1903 to 1973 · aged 69

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