Marlen Khutsiyev

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-10-04 (94 years old)

Deathday

2019-03-19

Place of Birth

Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR

Marlen Khutsiyev

Biography

Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward. Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushche...

Production

2001

People of 1941

as Director

2001

1967

July Rain

as Director

1967

July Rain

as Writer

1965

I Am Twenty

as Director

1965

I Am Twenty

as Writer

1970

It Was In May

as Director

1983

Postscript

as Writer

1983

Postscript

as Director

1993

Infinity

as Director

1958

The Two Fedors

as Director

1974

1955

Lyana

as Assistant Director

1967

Strong with Spirit

as Art Direction

1993

Infinity

as Screenplay

1958

Youth Street

as Scenario Writer

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