Marlen Khutsiyev
Known For
Directing
Born
1925-10-04 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Died
2019-03-19
Biography
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.
Most Known For
To Remember
as Narrator
The Gift
as Self
Intervention
as Entente Military Commander
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
as Self
Shine, Shine, My Star
as Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)
Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
as Self
On the Day of the Holiday
as Ramzes
Александр Белявский. Личное дело Фокса
as Self - Режиссер
Cinematic Language of the Era: Marlen Khutsiev
as Self
People of 1941
as Narrator (voice)
A Georgian Toast
as Self
Into_nation of Big Odesa
as Himself / Narrator
