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Pavel Chuhray
Павел Чухрай
Birth at
14 October 1946
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Pavel Chukhrai, a famous director, cameraman and screenwriter, was born on October 14, 1946 in the suburbs. Pavel’s childhood was spent at the studio named after A. Dovzhenko, where his father G.N. Chukhrai worked. Here he watched as a movie was made, and one day he had to play in one of the episodes of the film “Hello, children!”. Subsequently, Pavel Chukhrai entered the camera faculty of VGIK in the workshop of B.I. Volchek and in 1971 was the operator of the film “The House in Five Walls”. Then
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Pavel Chukhrai, a famous director, cameraman and screenwriter, was born on October 14, 1946 in the suburbs. Pavel’s childhood was spent at the studio named after A. Dovzhenko, where his father G.N. Chukhrai worked. Here he watched as a movie was made, and one day he had to play in one of the episodes of the film “Hello, children!”. Subsequently, Pavel Chukhrai entered the camera faculty of VGIK in the workshop of B.I. Volchek and in 1971 was the operator of the film “The House in Five Walls”. Then he graduated from the director's faculty, the studio of I.V. Talankin (1974). The diploma work of the young director was a short film “Free will”. The first feature-length film “People in the Ocean” was shot in 1980, and in 1981 Pavel Chukhrai received the Lenin Komsomol Prize.
Having begun his creative career, Pavel Chukhrai began to shoot a movie on topics of concern to him. Absolute furor made the film
The thief (1997), which received two awards at once "Nika" as best film and best director's work, as well as a nomination for an Oscar. In this film, the main character is a boy whose mother has fallen in love with another man. It also condemns the opinion imposed on the people about the events of the Great Patriotic War. In 2004, the film was released.
Driver for Faith" In which the topic of power politics in the 60s was raised. The prototype of the picture was the tragedy that occurred in the late 50s in Sevastopol, when sailors died in an overturned ship.
Pavel Chukhrai tried himself not only as a director, but also as a screenwriter – the films “People in the Ocean”, “Who Will Pay for Luck?”, “Cage for Canaries” and others, and also shot a documentary film.
Children from the abyss about the Holocaust. In 2006, Pavel Chukhrai was recognized as the People's Artist of Russia. The director was twice married, most recently to Maria Zvereva, and has two daughters from different marriages.