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Valeriy Semenovich Frid
Валерий Фрид
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13 January 1922 - 7 September 1998
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Valery Semenovich Frid was born on January 13, 1922 in Tomsk. In 1940, he entered the script faculty of VGIK, where he studied together with Julia Dunsky; in 1944, having passed the exams on the theoretical course ahead of schedule, Valery Fried volunteered to the front. He was able to defend his diploma only in 1957, because after the war he was repressed and spent several years in camps and exile. “The case at the mine number eight” was the first film, staged according to the script of Valery
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Valery Semenovich Frid was born on January 13, 1922 in Tomsk. In 1940, he entered the script faculty of VGIK, where he studied together with Julia Dunsky; in 1944, having passed the exams on the theoretical course ahead of schedule, Valery Fried volunteered to the front. He was able to defend his diploma only in 1957, because after the war he was repressed and spent several years in camps and exile. “The case at the mine number eight” was the first film, staged according to the script of Valery Fried and Julia Dunsky, in creative cooperation with whom all the scripts were created, and it was released in 1958. Most of the films based on Fried and Dunsky scripts were included in the “golden fund” of Soviet cinema. Among these films were heroic dramas, comedies, film adaptations, historical and adventure films, the first Soviet “film of disasters”. To understand what contribution was made by outstanding screenwriters in the cinema, it is enough to list only a few titles - "Two comrades served", "Old, old fairy tale", "Shadow", "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson", "Tale about how Tsar Peter arapa married", "Crew", and among the directors with whom they worked - Alexander Mitta, Rolan Bykov, Evgeny Karelov, Grigory Chukhrai, Nadezhda Kosherova, Igor Maslennikov, Sergei Mikaelyan.