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Sergey Bondarchuk

Directing Born Sep 25, 1920 Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR 24 credits

Biography

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.

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Known for

Film

War and Peace

as Pierre Bezukhov
Film

The Battle of Neretva

as Martin

The Stand

as pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

Full filmography

  • Legends of Cinema (2016) as Self (archive footage)
  • War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966) as Pierre Bezukhov
  • War and Peace (1968) as Pierre Bezukhov
  • War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) as Pierre Bezukhov
  • War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967) as Pierre Bezukhov
  • Admiral Ushakov (1953) as Tikhon Prokofyev
  • Quiet Flows The Don (2006) as General Krasnov
  • War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) as Pierre Bezukhov
  • The Battle of Neretva (1969) as Martin
  • They Fought for Their Motherland (1975) as pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev
  • Gnat (1980) as Cardinal Montanelli
  • Uncle Vanya (1970) as Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astrov
  • Fate of a Man (1959) as Sokolov
  • Taras Shevchenko (1951) as Taras Shevchenko
  • Father Sergius (1978) as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
  • Boris Godunov (1986) as Boris Godunov
  • The Airport Incident (1989)
  • The Young Guard (1948) as Comrade Valko
  • Bondarchuk. Battle (2021) as self (archive)
  • Story of a Real Man (1948)
  • The Grasshopper (1955) as Dr. Osip Dymov
  • The Gadfly (1980) as Кардинал Монтанелли
  • Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World (1982)
  • Ernst Schneller (1977) as General Alexander Simionov Sotow