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Sergey Apollinarievich Gerasimov
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Sergey Apollinarievich Gerasimov was a Soviet film director, actor, screenwriter, playwright and teacher, a professor at VGIK. He was born in the sloboda of Kundravinskaya in the Orenburg Governorate (now the village of Kundravy in Chelyabinsk Oblast). In 1915 he entered a secondary school (realschule) in Yekaterinburg. After his family moved to Krasnoyarsk, Gerasimov continued his studies and worked at a factory. In 1923 he returned to Yekaterinburg, enrolled in a theatre studio, but soon left it and moved to Petrograd, where he studied at the Leningrad Art School.
Gerasimov made his film debut in 1925 — he appeared in the film Mishki protiv Yudenicha (Bears Against Yudenich). In 1928 he graduated from the acting department of the Leningrad Institute of Theatrical Arts; from 1930 he worked as a director at the Leningrad film factory Soyuzkino / the Lenfilm studio, and from 1943 at the Mosfilm studio.
During the Great Patriotic War (World War II) Gerasimov took part in the production of Combat Film Compilation No. 1 (1941), together with Mikhail Kalatozov he filmed Nepobedimye (The Invincible) (1942) and created the picture Bolshaya zemlya (The Great Land) (1944), dedicated to the heroic struggle of the Soviet people. In 1944–1945 he was Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Cinematography and director of the Central Studio of Documentary Films, and he supervised filming at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. From 1944 Gerasimov resumed teaching, and from 1946 he headed the combined directing and acting workshop at VGIK. Sergey Apollinarievich Gerasimov died on November 26, 1985, after heart surgery and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
03 June 1906
Date of death
26 November 1985
Occupation
Director