Marlen Khutsiyev

Born: 1925-10-04

Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward. Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by the authorities, forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence. In 1978, Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK.) His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.


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Intervention

as Командующий войсками Антанты
Released: 1968-06-06

The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police...

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Shine, Shine, My Star

as Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)
Released: 1969-06-06

This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had...

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Into_nation of Big Odessa

as Himself / Narrator
Released: 2018-04-23

In the world, there is a city-port Odessa, which was specially created as a refuge for people of...

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On the Day of the Holiday

as Ramzes
Released: 1978-03-09

About one day of a large mining family. In the center of the picture is a veteran, a former...

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Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

as Self
Released: 2017-01-01

To be somewhere precise yet stand nowhere at all, to embody one’s convictions, yet never miss...

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Khutsiev. Action Starts!

as uncredited
Released: 2019-04-21

In Осtober, 2015, Marlen Khutsiev was to turn 90. The master had no intention of retiring, he...

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The Gift

as Self
Released: 2019-04-10

After the release of "Nostalgia", Andrei Tarkovsky runs out his Soviet authorities permission to...

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Cinematic Language of the Era: Marlen Khutsiev

as Self
Released: 2023-01-01

The documentary film "Cinematic Language of the Era: Marlen Khutsiev" is timed to coincide with...

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A Georgian Toast

as Self
Released: 2020-10-01

During the filming of the documentary film “The Gift”, Giuliano Fratini meets the master Marlen...

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People of 1941

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2001-06-17

The second World War echoes throughout the whole Khutsiyev's oeuvre. The director himself did...

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To Remember

as Narrator
First aired: 1993-12-09

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