Sergei Yutkevich facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Yutkevich
Born	Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (1904-12-28)28 December 1904 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	23 April 1985(1985-04-23) (aged 80) Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1925–1980

Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (Russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, born December 28, 1904 – died April 23, 1985) was a famous Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was known for making many different kinds of movies, from funny comedies to serious historical films. He was honored as a "People's Artist of the USSR" and a "Hero of Socialist Labour," which are very high awards in the Soviet Union.

About Sergei Yutkevich

Early Life and Film Career

A memorial to Sergei Yutkevich in Moscow, where he lived.

Sergei Yutkevich started working when he was a teenager, putting on puppet shows. From 1921 to 1923, he studied theater under a famous director named Vsevolod Meyerhold.

Later, he helped create a group called the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS). This group focused on circus acts and music hall performances. He began working in films in the 1920s and started directing his own movies in 1928.

His films were often more cheerful than many other Russian movies of the time. This was because he was inspired by American slapstick comedy, which uses exaggerated physical humor. However, he also directed serious historical films, docudramas (movies based on real events), and biopics (movies about real people's lives).

Famous Films and Awards

Sergei Yutkevich won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director twice. He won for his film Othello in 1956. He won again for Lenin in Poland in 1966.

One of his later films, Lenin in Paris, is also very well known. He was also a judge at the Moscow International Film Festival several times. He was a jury member in 1959 and 1961, and he was the President of the Jury in 1967.

Sergei Yutkevich passed away in Moscow on April 23, 1985, at the age of 80.

Filmography

Here are some of the films Sergei Yutkevich directed:

• Lace (1928)
• Golden Mountains (1931)
• Counterplan (1932) (with Fridrikh Ermler and Lev Arnshtam)
• The Miners (1937)
• The Man with the Gun (1938)
• Yakov Sverdlov (1940)
• Hello Moscow! (1945)
• Light over Russia (1947)
• Three Encounters (1948) (with Aleksandr Ptushko and Vsevolod Pudovkin)
• Przhevalsky (1951)
• The Great Warrior Skanderbeg (1953)
• Othello (1955)
• Stories About Lenin (1957)
• Lenin in Poland (1965)
• Subject for a Short Story (1969)
• Lenin in Paris (1981) (with Leonid Eidlin)

See also

In Spanish: Serguéi Yutkévich para niños