Gleb Panfilov

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Gleb Panfilov
USSR
Died26 August 2023(2023-08-26) (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1958–2022

Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023) was a Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova.[1]

Biography

In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to theatre directing, but also found time to adapt for the screen

Mother (1989). Vassa won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival[2] and Russia's State Prize. He won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Theme.[3]

Despite the hardships of the 1990s Panfilov was committed to directing

Romanov sainthood
. The film, finally released in 2000, was a sort of family project involving his wife as well as children. It was also his first movie that did not feature his wife in a leading role.

In 2000 at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival Panfilov was awarded an Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema.[4]

In January 2006

The First Circle
. The Nobel Prize-winning author helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film.

Gleb Panfilov died on 26 August 2023, at the age of 89.[5]

Filmography

Director

Writer

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8
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  2. ^ "13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Berlinale: 1987 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
  4. ^ "22nd Moscow International Film Festival (2000)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  5. ^ Умер Глеб Панфилов (in Russian)

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