About

Known credits:
33
Birthday:
1901-11-17
Place of birth:
Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Website:
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Ivan Pyryev

Overview

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (17 November 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.

Pyryev was born in Kamen-na-Obi, in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Altai Krai, Russia). His early career included acting on stage directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold in The Forest and by Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletcult Theatre production The Mexican. Pyryev also acted in Eisenstein's first short film Glumov's Diary. Pyryev's early career included production jobs behind the camera, such as work for director Yuri Tarich. He débuted as a director in the age of silent film, with Strange Woman (1929).

During the 1930s and 1940s Pyryev rivaled Grigori Aleksandrov as the country's most successful director of musical comedies, all of which starred his wife Marina Ladynina. Even during wartime, when the Soviet film industry had been evacuated to Alma-Ata, Pyryev made popular and light-hearted features. In Six O'Clock after the War is Over the Romantic characters (played by Ladynina and Yevgeny Samoilov), when separated by war, arrange a date at 6 PM on the Victory Day, and the victory celebrations are shown towards the end of the film (which was released in November 1944).

Known for

Directing
1969 The Brothers Karamazov Directing Director 59
Average
1965 Light of a Distant Star Directing Director 58
Average
1962 Наш общий друг Directing Director 58
Average
1959 White Nights Directing Director 58
Average
1958 The Idiot Directing Director 59
Average
1954 Devotion Directing Director 59
Average
1951 Friendship Triumphs Directing Director N/A
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1950 Cossacks of the Kuban Directing Director 59
Average
1947 Tale of the Siberian Land Directing Director 58
Average
1944 Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War Directing Director 58
Average
1942 The District Secretary Directing Director 58
Average
1941 Swineherd and Shepherd Directing Director 58
Average
1940 The Beloved Directing Director 58
Average
1939 Tractor Drivers Directing Director 58
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1937 Rich Bride Directing Director 58
Average
1936 Anna Directing Director 58
Average
1933 Conveyor of Death Directing Director 59
Average
1931 The Civil Servant Directing Director N/A
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1928 Bulat-Batyr Directing Assistant Director 58
Average

Writing
1969 The Brothers Karamazov Writing Writer 59
Average
1965 Light of a Distant Star Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1961 Sovershenno seryozno Writing Creative Producer 59
Average
1961 Как создавался Робинзон Writing Creative Producer 58
Average
1961 Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross Writing Creative Producer 61
Fair
1961 История с пирожками Writing Creative Producer 58
Average
1961 Приятного аппетита Writing Creative Producer 58
Average
1959 White Nights Writing Writer 58
Average
1958 The Idiot Writing Writer 59
Average
1954 Devotion Writing Writer 59
Average
1951 Friendship Triumphs Writing Writer N/A
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1947 Tale of the Siberian Land Writing Story 58
Average
1931 Turner Alekseev Writing Screenplay N/A
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1930 Be Like This Writing Writer N/A
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