Marlene Martynovich Khutsiev was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, on October 4, 1925 in the family of a communist and actress. The school years of the boy passed in Moscow, but in 1937 his father was repressed, and Marlene and his mother returned to their homeland.
After school, he tried to enter the Art Academy, but did not pass the competition. During the war, he also did not get to the front due to poor health.
The film career of the actor began in 1944, when he was hired at the Tbilisi Film Studio
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Marlene Martynovich Khutsiev was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, on October 4, 1925 in the family of a communist and actress. The school years of the boy passed in Moscow, but in 1937 his father was repressed, and Marlene and his mother returned to their homeland.
After school, he tried to enter the Art Academy, but did not pass the competition. During the war, he also did not get to the front due to poor health.
The film career of the actor began in 1944, when he was hired at the Tbilisi Film Studio as an assistant artist. After the end of the war, he came to Moscow, entered VGIK at the director's faculty. Graduated in 1950, the thesis of Khutsiev was a short film “Urban planners”.
For some time, the young man worked in the Central Studio of Children’s and Youth Films as an assistant director of dubbing.
In 1955, he was invited to the position of the second director to shoot the film “Liana” under the leadership of Boris Barnet. Then he moved to the Odessa film studio, getting the position of director.
In 1956, together with his colleague and former fellow student Felix Mironer, he shot the first full-length picture.
Spring on Zarechnaya Street It was a resounding success. More than 30 million viewers watched the film.
Marlene Hutsiev cemented his success with drama
Two Fedoras It was published in 1958. The main role went to unknown at that time actor Vasily Shukshin, she became his film debut.
In 1959, Marlene decided to return to the Gorky film studio, where he began work as an assistant director. In 1962 he worked on the film “Ilyich Outpost” together with Gennady Shpalikov. The picture was later renamed, and on the screens it came under the name “I am twenty years old”.
Since 1965, he worked as a director at the Mosfilm film studio, where he made a film the following year.
July Rain . As an actor, Khutsiev starred in the comedy “Golden Calf” and in the film “Burn, burn, my star”.
The director worked a lot on a wide variety of films for many years, and in the mid-2000s he began writing a play with his son, which later became a script for the film “Nighting”.