Gleb Panfilov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-05-21 (89 years old)

Deathday

2023-08-26

Place of Birth

Magnitogorsk, USSR (Russia)

Gleb Panfilov

Biography

Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023; Magnitogorsk) was a Soviet and Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova. His first film "No Path Through Fire" won the Golden Leopard at the 22nd Locarno International Film Festival (1969). He also won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival (1987) for the film "The Theme". In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to theatre directing, but also found time to adapt for the screen Alexander Vampilov's play Valentina (1981), as well as Maxim Gorky's Vassa Z...

Acting

Production

1967

1970

The Beginning

as Director

1983

Vassa

as Director

1979

The Theme

as Director

1979

The Theme

as Writer

1958

People's Police

as Director

1959

1962

1962

2007

Keep Forever

as Screenplay

2013

2015

1989

Hamlet

as Director

1962

1976

I Wish to Speak

as Director

2007

Keep Forever

as Editor

1958

Nylon Jacket

as Director

1959

1962

1980

Valentina

as Director

1990

Mother

as Director

1980

Valentina

as Writer

1976

1990

Mother

as Writer

1983

Vassa

as Writer

1980

Meeting

as Writer

2007

Keep Forever

as Director

2019

Audience

as Director

1978

1970

The Beginning

as Writer

2021

100 Minutes

as Director

2021

100 Minutes

as Screenplay

2008

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