Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
August 15, 1904
Died
April 24, 1985 (80 years old)
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
- Sergei Yosifovich Yutkevich
- S. Yutkevich
- Сергей Иосифович Юткевич
- С. Юткевич
- Sergueï Youkevitch
Sergei Yutkevich
Biography
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.
Sergei Yutkevich began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. He later helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the 1920s and began directing in 1928. His films often were cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics.
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He won Cannes's Best Director Award twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in Poland in 1966. Of his later films Lenin in Paris is among the best known.
Known For
Directing
Lenin in Paris
Director, Writer
1981
Dzhamilya
Art Direction
1969
Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film
Archival Footage Coordinator, Supervising Editor
1968
Lenin in Poland
Director, Screenplay
1966
Behind Show Windows
Producer
1956
Othello
Director, Writer
1955
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
Director
1953
The Humpbacked Horse
Producer
1941
The Man with the Gun
Director
1938
Bed and Sofa
Production Design
1927