Marlen Khutsiyev

Known for DirectingBorn 1925-10-04Died 2019-03-19Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR

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 Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by the authorities, forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence. In 1978, Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK.) His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.Read more

Movies & web series

On the Day of the Holiday

Youth Street

People of 1941

To Remember

I Am Twenty

Into_nation of Big Odesa

Spring on Zarechnaya Street

Strong with Spirit

July Rain

Lyana

Intervention

Shine, Shine, My Star

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

It Was In May

Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God

The Two Fedors

Allegro with Fire

Alexander Belyavsky. Fox's Personal File

The Scarlet Sail of Paris

And Still I Believe

Infinity

Postscript

Khutsiev. Action Starts!

The Cinema Language of an Era: Marlen Khutsiev

A Georgian Toast

The Gift

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories

Dzhura - Hunter from Min-Arkhar

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession