Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1920-09-25
Day of Death
1994-10-20
Place of Birth
Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Sergey Bondarchuk
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.
Filmography (54)
Георгий Данелия. Любовный марафон
2023
Bondarchuk. Battle
2021Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик
2015
Quiet Flows The Don
2006
Thunder Over Rus'
1992
Drums of Fire
1990
Boris Godunov
1986
One Day of Mosfilm
1985Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk
1983
Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World
1982Sergey Bondarchuk
1982
The Gadfly
1980
Profession: Film Actor
1980
¡Qué Viva México!
1979
