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Sergey Iosifovich Utkevich
Сергей Юткевич
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28 December 1904 - 23 April 1985
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was born on January 28 (according to the article - 15) in St. Petersburg, 1904. In 1917-1923 he worked as an artist, director and actor in the theaters of Kiev, Sevastopol and Moscow; in 1921-1923 he studied at the Higher Art and Technical Workshops (VHUTEMAS) and in the State Higher Directorial Workshops (GVYRM) under the leadership of Vsevolod Meyerhold; at the same time he worked as an artist at the theater studio of N. M. Foregher ("Mastfor"), where he designed a
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was born on January 28 (according to the article - 15) in St. Petersburg, 1904. In 1917-1923 he worked as an artist, director and actor in the theaters of Kiev, Sevastopol and Moscow; in 1921-1923 he studied at the Higher Art and Technical Workshops (VHUTEMAS) and in the State Higher Directorial Workshops (GVYRM) under the leadership of Vsevolod Meyerhold; at the same time he worked as an artist at the theater studio of N. M. Foregher ("Mastfor"), where he designed a number of performances with S. Eisenstein. In 1922, S. Yutkevich, together with G. Kozintsev, L. Trauberg and G. Kryzhitsky, issued the manifesto “Excentrism”, which became the theoretical platform of the “Factory of the Eccentric Actor” (FEX). He came to the cinema as an artist, creating scenery for the films by A. Room “Traitor” and “Third Meshchanskaya”, was an artist of the 1st Moscow State Film Factory. The directorial debut of Sergei Yutkevich in the movie was a short film "Give radio!" (together with S. Grunberg) - an eccentric comedy from the life of street children, soon he headed the "Experimental film team Yutkevich". In Moscow in 1928, the director put his first full-length picture - "Kruzhev"; in the same year he begins to work at "Lenfilm", where he directs the First Film Workshop. The basis of the plot of the film "Golden Mountains" was the history of a large plant. Then he staged the film "Meeting" (1932, together with F. Ermler) - about the fate of the people of the modern factory, which became a milestone event in the history of Soviet cinema. In 1938, having staged the picture “The Man with a Gun”, the director turned to the theme “Leninian”, which became the leading one in his work – later he filmed “Stories about Lenin” (1958), “Lenin in Poland” (1966), “Lenin in Paris” (1981). In the 1950s, Sergei Yutkevich staged a number of films that showed the breadth of his creative interests - color historical and biographical films Przhevalsky (1952) and The Great Warrior of Albania Skanderbeg (1954). A significant event in world cinema was his adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello (1956), in which the title role was vividly played by Sergei Bondarchuk. In the same years, the director staged a number of performances in the theaters of Moscow and Leningrad, was an artist and director of plays by V.V. Mayakovsky in the Moscow Theater of Satire: “Bath” (1953), “Bedbug” (1955). To the work of Mayakovsky, the director turned to cinema - as a director and screenwriter, together with A. Karanovich, he shot in 1962 the film "Bath", consistently applying the method of film collage developed by him, in which actors, documentary footage, dolls and drawn animation were organically combined; the same line was continued in the film "Mayakovsky Laughs" (1976). In 1970, Sergei Yutkevich staged the films “A plot for a small story”, which covered the period of A. P. Chekhov’s life associated with the creation of “The Seagull”. In 1960-65 he directed the Student Theatre of Moscow State University; in 1982 he staged in the Moscow Music Chamber Theatre "Balaganchik" and "The Stranger" by A.A. Blok.
Beginning in the late 1920s, S. Yutkevich was engaged in teaching, in 1938-1941 he headed the Department of Acting at VGIK, subsequently repeatedly recruited directorial workshops, conducted classes at the Higher Directorial Courses. Working at the Institute of Art History (1947-1949, 1956-1973) and the VNII of Cinema Art (1974-1985), he studied the problems of film theory in depth, wrote a number of monographs on the material of Soviet and foreign cinema ("The Director's Counterpoint", 1960; "Shakespeare in Cinema", 1973; "Models of Political Cinema", 1978). In 1982, at the Venice Film Festival, the outstanding director was awarded the Golden Lion Jubilee Prize for his contribution to world cinema.