Sergei Gerasimov
Director
Biography
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.
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Filmography
The New Babylon
as Lutro, the journalist 1929
Fragment of an Empire
1929
The Overcoat
as Yaryzhka, card sharp 1926
Alone
as Village Chairman 1931
Men and Beasts
as Lvov-Shcherbatsky 1962
The Club of the Big Deed
as Medoks, opportunist 1927
The Devil's Wheel
as The Question Man 1926
Masquerade
1941
Lev Tolstoy
as Lev Tolstoi 1984
Daughters-Mothers
as Pyotr Nikanorovich Vorobyev 1975
The Journalist
as Alexei Kolesnikov 1967
Wake Lena Up
1934
Just Life...
as (archive footage) 1987
Stars Meet in Moscow
as Self 1959
Chuzhoy pidzhak
as Skalkovskiy 1927
One Hour With Kozintsev
as Himself 1970
Pyotr Martynovich And The Years Of Great Life
as Himself 1976