Director

Sergey Bondarchuk

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Directed movies: 11Directed series: 2All crew credits: 17

TMDB ID: 38131

IMDb ID: nm0094083

Known for: Directing

Born: September 25, 1920

Died: October 20, 1994

Age: 74

Place of birth: Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1948 - 2021

Years active: 74

Average TMDB rating: 7.07

Wikidata: Q55190

Also known as

Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук • Sergei Bondarchuk • Sergej Bondartschuk • Сергій Бондарчук • Serguéi Fiódorovich Bondarchuk • Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk • Sergueï Fiodorovitch Bondartchouk

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Director (12)Director of Photography (1)Screenplay (2)Scenario Writer (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

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.