Ivan Pyryev

Known for DirectingBorn 1901-11-17Died 1968-02-07Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire

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. Pyryev also acted in Eisenstein's first short film Glumov's Diary. Pyryev's early career included production jobs behind the camera, such as work for director Yuri Tarich. He débuted as a director in the age of silent film, with Strange Woman (1929). During the 1930s and 1940s Pyryev rivaled Grigori Aleksandrov as the country's most successful director of musical comedies, all of which starred his wife Marina Ladynina. Even during wartime, when the Soviet film industry had been evacuated to Alma-Ata, Pyryev made popular and light-hearted features. In Six O'Clock after the War is Over the Romantic characters (played by Ladynina and Yevgeny Samoilov), when separated by war, arrange a date at 6 PM on the Victory Day, and the victory celebrations are shown towards the end of the film (which was released in November 1944).Read more

Movies & web series

Friendship Triumphs

How Robinson Was Created

История с пирожками

Приятного аппетита

Youth Sports Festival

The Civil Servant

White Nights

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

Light of a Distant Star

Our Mutual Friend

Sovershenno seryozno

Turner Alekseev

The Other Woman

The Idiot

Conveyor of Death

The Brothers Karamazov

Rich Bride

Cossacks of the Kuban

The Beloved

Devotion

1812

Anna

Tale of the Siberian Land

Swineherd and Shepherd

Glumov's Diary

Tractor Drivers

The District Secretary

Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War

Bulat-Batyr

Legends of Cinema

Be Like This

Torn-Off Sleeves