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.
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Sergei Gerasimov Biography / Wiki
| Name | Sergei Gerasimov |
| Also Know | Сергей ГераÑимов, Sergey Gerasimov, Sergueï Guerassimov, Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Kundravy, Urals, Russian Empire |
| Date of Birth | 1906-05-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1985-11-26 |
Sergei Gerasimov Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Lev Tolstoy | Lev Tolstoi | 1984-10-26 | The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia†and “Departureâ€. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We s… |
| Chuzhoy pidzhak | 1927-01-01 | … | |
| Wake Lena | 1934-06-10 | The story of a little schoolgirl who was always late for lessons, and her friends who came up with an original way to re-educate a truant…. | |
| The Club of the Big Deed | Medoks | 1927-03-22 | The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it… |
| Daughters-Mothers | Pyotr Nikanorovich Vorobyev | 1975-03-27 | The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter f… |
| The Overcoat | Drunkard | 1926-05-10 | Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories “Nevsky Prospekt” and “The Overcoat”…. |
| The Devil’s Wheel | Man The Question | 1926-03-15 | Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, compl… |
| The New Babylon | Lutro, the journalist | 1929-01-01 | In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, … |
| Fragment of an Empire | 1929-10-28 | Described by historian Paul Rotha as “the epitome of the Soviet propaganda film, realized with extraordinary skill of technical achievement”, Fragment… | |
| The Journalist | Alexei Kolesnikov | 1967-09-23 | A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author… |
| Masquerade | 1941-01-01 | Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov’s Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another … | |
| Men and Beasts | Lvov-Shcherbatsky | 1962-07-07 | The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the di… |
Sergei Gerasimov Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Daughters-Mothers | Director | 1975-03-27 | The young girl Olga Vasilyeva grew up in an orphanage. She never knew her mother and wants to find her. The only trace she has is a preserved letter f… |
| The Young Guard | Director | 1948-10-11 | In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to … |
| Quiet Flows the Don | Director | 1957-10-26 | Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and t… |
| The Youth of Peter | Director | 1980-10-29 | The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna… |
| At the Beginning of Glorious Days | Director | 1980-10-29 | Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but w… |
| Lev Tolstoy | Director | 1984-10-26 | The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia†and “Departureâ€. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We s… |
| Men and Beasts | Director | 1962-07-07 | The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the di… |
| By the Lake | Director | 1969-04-13 | The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, o… |
| The Journalist | Director | 1967-09-23 | A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author… |
| The New China | Director | 1951-05-01 | The New China (Russian: ОÑвобождённый Китай, Osvobozhdyonnyy Kitay) is a 1950 Soviet documentary film directed by Sergei Gerasimov. … |
| The Brave Seven | Director | 1936-03-04 | Six polar explorers arrives to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a yo… |
| The Ural Front | Director | 1944-08-06 | August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organiza… |
| The Red and the Black | Director | 1976-06-23 | Historical psychological drama which chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combina… |
| The Wind Rose | Director | 1957-03-08 | An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world…. |
| Masquerade | Director | 1941-01-01 | Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov’s Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another … |
| Alone | Assistant Director | 1931-10-09 | A young teacher is sent to a remote province, separating her from her lover, and sets about the difficult task of building a school there…. |
| The Invincible | Director | 1943-01-21 | The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possibl… |
| The Love of Mankind | Director | 1972-12-01 | A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology o… |
| The Country Doctor | Director | 1952-01-12 | A young woman is going to the village to start working as doctor…. |
| Komsomolsk | Director | 1938-10-26 | … |
| Velikoye proshchaniye | Director | 1953-08-05 | March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured – this Moscow froze … |
| The New Teacher | Director | 1939-12-10 | A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young… |
| Do I Love You? | Director | 1934-04-19 | Plot is unknown…. |
| Ðадежда | Director | 1955-04-19 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Quiet Flows the Don | Writer | 1957-10-26 | Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and t… |
| Men and Beasts | Writer | 1962-07-07 | The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the di… |
| By the Lake | Writer | 1969-04-13 | The film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, o… |
| The Brave Seven | Screenplay | 1936-03-04 | Six polar explorers arrives to a remote island in Arctic for a year-long scientific expedition. When their ship departs, they unpack only to find a yo… |
| The Youth of Peter | Writer | 1980-10-29 | The years of the tsar’s adolescence and youth were permeated with deadly danger coming from some of the Boyars, the rebellious Streltsy and Tsarevna… |
| At the Beginning of Glorious Days | Writer | 1980-10-29 | Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but w… |
| The Young Guard | Writer | 1948-10-11 | In 1942, local teenagers are organizing the underground resistance in the city of Krasnodon during the Nazi occupation of Russia. The teens manage to … |
| The Red and the Black | Writer | 1976-06-23 | Historical psychological drama which chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combina… |
| Lev Tolstoy | Writer | 1984-10-26 | The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia†and “Departureâ€. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We s… |
| ПамÑÑ‚ÑŒ Ñердца | Screenplay | 1958-05-26 | … |
| Masquerade | Writer | 1941-01-01 | Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov’s Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another … |
| The Invincible | Screenplay | 1943-01-21 | The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possibl… |
| The Ural Front | Screenplay | 1944-08-06 | August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organiza… |
| The Love of Mankind | Screenplay | 1972-12-01 | A film about young architects who are building a new city in Siberia (Norilsk), their anxieties, concerns, and victories. Story of subtle psychology o… |
| The Journalist | Writer | 1967-09-23 | A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author… |
| The New Teacher | Writer | 1939-12-10 | A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young… |
| Дорога правды | Writer | 1956-09-13 | … |
| Ðадежда | Writer | 1955-04-19 | … |
| Чапаев Ñ Ð½Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ | Writer | 1941-07-31 | … |
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