As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Lev Tolstoy
1984
4.2
Sergei Gerasimov
Acting
Birth date
May 21, 1906
Birth place
Kundravy, Urals, Russian Empire
Death date
November 26, 1985
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Featured in
As Director, As Writer
The Youth of Peter
1981
6.4
As Director, As Writer
The Red and the Black
1976
5.8
As Actor, As Director
Daughters-Mothers
1975
4.3
As Director, As Writer
The Love of Mankind
1972
3.7
As Director, As Writer
By the Lake
1970
5.2
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
The Journalist
1967
5.4
As Director, As Writer
Quiet Flows the Don
1957
6.2
As Director
The Country Doctor
1952
6.0
As Director, As Writer
The Young Guard
1948
5.1
As Director, As Writer
The Ural Front
1944
6.0
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Masquerade
1941
5.6
As Director, As Writer
Komsomolsk
1938
7.0
As Director, As Writer
The Brave Seven
1936
4.3
As Actor
Alone
1931
5.2
As Actor
The New Babylon
1929
5.9
As Actor
The Club of the Big Deed
1927
5.2
As Actor
The Overcoat
1926
5.1
As Actor
The Devil's Wheel
1926
5.3