Ivan Pyryev
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-11-17 (67 years old)
Deathday
1968-02-07
Place of Birth
Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Also known As
Ivan Pyrev
I. P'ryev
Ivan Pyriev
Iwan Pyrjew
I. Pyryev
Ivan A. Pyryev
Іван Олександрович Пир'єв
Ivan Pyryev
Biography
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. Pyrye...
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1950
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1936
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1941
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1940
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1969
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1958
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1958
as Writer
1933
as Director
1947
as Story
1947
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1939
as Director
1931
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1930
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1954
as Director
1954
as Writer
1942
as Director
1946
as Director
1944
as Director
1959
as Director
1962
as Director
1961
as Creative Producer
1965
as Director
1965
as Screenplay
1959
as Writer
1969
as Writer
1951
as Writer
1951
as Director
1931
as Screenplay
1928
as Assistant Director
1961
as Creative Producer
1961
as Creative Producer
1961
as Creative Producer
1961
as Creative Producer
1951
as Creative Director
1951
as Art Department Coordinator
1962
as Screenplay
1928
as Writer
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