Georgy Natanson

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Georgy Natanson
Russian SFSR
Died17 December 2017(2017-12-17) (aged 96)
Occupation(s)Director, screenwriter

Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (Russian: Гео́ргий Григо́рьевич Натансо́н; 23 May 1921 – 17 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright.[1][2] Worked as director at Mosfilm.[3] People's Artist of Russia (1994), winner of the USSR State Prize (1977).[4]

Biography

Georgy Natanson was born on May 23, 1921, in Kazan. His mother was a singer, his father, Grigory Nathanson, was an economist and was killed in the army in 1941 at Yelnya.[5]

Since 1941 to 1943 he worked as an assistant director of the Central United Film Studio (CUFS) in Alma-Ata, which was also evacuated in a film studio

Andrey Tarkovsky (Ivan's Childhood).[7]

In 1956, seeing the spectacle An Unusual Concert, Georgy Natanson already as auteur-director puts together with the Sergey Obraztsov satirical film Heavenly Creatures, marked by the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival in Venice. The following year, appears the film White Acacia based on the eponymous operetta of Isaak Dunayevsky. In 1960, screens out a shot with Anatoly Efros film Noisy Day on the play by Viktor Rozov, Finding Joy.

In subsequent years, one after another out films

Tatyana Doronina has been recognized as the best actress, of the year for a decade of Soviet films in Rome and Milan.[2]

Next Natanson removes Once More About Love (1968), prize at the International Film Festival in Cartagena (Colombia),[9] The Ambassador of the Soviet Union (1969), For All Responsible (1972), Re-Wedding (1975), They Were the Actors (1981), Elena Obraztsova Sings (1982), Valentin and Valentina (1985) the play by Mikhail Roshchin, Aelita, Do Not Pester Men! (1988) based on the play by Edvard Radzinsky, Frenzied Bus (1990). In the 1970s, he often worked as a theater director.[2]

Natanson was also often invited to participate in the work of the juries of many domestic festivals and creative meetings.[10]

Death

Natanson died in Moscow on 17 December 2017, aged 96.[11]

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