Sergei Bondarchuk
Known for: Directing
Born: September 25, 1920
Died: October 20, 1994
Place of birth: Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.
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Filmography
58 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Bondarchuk. Battle
2021
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Legends of Cinema
2016NR
Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
2015
4.3
Quiet Flows The Don
2006
7.5
Quiet Flows the Don
2006
8.0
Thunder Over Rus'
1992
6.1
Drums of Fire
1990
7.0
The Airport Incident
1989
5.8
Boris Godunov
1986
4.1
Bambi's Childhood
1985
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One Day of Mosfilm
1985NR
Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk
1983
4.5
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982
4.2
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
1982NR
Sergey Bondarchuk
1982
5.1
The Gadfly
1980
8.0
Gnat
1980
4.7
Profession: Film Actor
1980
6.8
¡Qué Viva México!
1979
9.0
Take-Off
1979
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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
7.0
Velvet Season
1978
3.4
Father Sergius
1978
5.7
The Steppe
1978
8.0
Ernst Schneller
1977
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Old Times in Poshekhonye
1977
6.5
The Peaks of Zelengore
1976
8.0
Choice of Purpose
1975
7.0
They Fought for Their Motherland
1975
5.0
The Mountain Woman
1975
8.0
Such High Mountains
1974
5.1
Doctor Evan's Silence
1974
6.6
The Battle of Sutjeska
1973
6.5
The Golden Gates
1971
7.1
Waterloo
1970
6.7
Uncle Vanya
1970
6.8
The Battle of Neretva
1969
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Making 'War and Peace'
1969
7.6
War and Peace
1968
7.5
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
1967
7.6
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
1967
7.2
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
1966
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Woina i Mir
1966
7.6
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
1966
7.0
Escape by Night
1960
5.7
A Summer to Remember
1960
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Stars Meet in Moscow
1959
7.5
Fate of a Man
1959
7.0
Soldiers Were Walking
1959
10.0
Ivan Franko
1956
5.3
Othello
1955
5.3
Unfinished Story
1955
5.2
The Grasshopper
1955
8.0
It Can Not Be Forgotten
1954
6.0
Attack from the Sea
1953
6.1
Admiral Ushakov
1953
8.0
Andriesh
1952
4.8
Taras Shevchenko
1951
5.6
Dream of a Cossack
1951
8.0
Glorious Path
1949
5.6
Michurin
1949
5.0
Story of a Real Man
1948
5.5
The Young Guard
1948