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Sergei Yutkevich
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Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.
Sergei Yutkevich began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. He later helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the 1920s and began directing in 1928. His films often were cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics.
He won Cannes's Best Director Award twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in Poland in 1966. Of his later films Lenin in Paris is among the best known.
As director
Lenin in Paris
Mayakovsky Laughs
Subject for a Short Story
Lenin in Poland
The Bath House
Stories About Lenin
Othello
The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
Przhevalsky
Three Encounters
Light over Russia
Hello, Moscow!
Liberated France
The New Adventures of Schweik
Schweik is Preparing For Battle
Yakov Sverdlov
The Man with the Gun
The Miners
Ankara - Heart of Turkey
Counterplan
Golden Mountains
The Black Sail
Lace
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