Sergey Bondarchuk

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

58

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-09-25

Day of death

1994-10-20 (74 years old)

Place of Birth

Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

Sergey Bondarchuk

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.

Known For

  • Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk

    Interviews with Filmmakers: Sergey Bondarchuk

  • The Peaks of Zelengore

    The Peaks of Zelengore

  • War and Peace

    War and Peace

  • Ivan Franko

    Ivan Franko

  • Drums of Fire

    Drums of Fire

  • Bondarchuk. Battle

    Bondarchuk. Battle

  • Making 'War and Peace'

    Making 'War and Peace'

  • The Battle of Neretva

    The Battle of Neretva

  • War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

    War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

  • War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

    War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

  • Admiral Ushakov

    Admiral Ushakov

  • War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

    War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

  • Quiet Flows The Don

    Quiet Flows The Don

  • It Can Not Be Forgotten

    It Can Not Be Forgotten

  • Father Sergius

    Father Sergius

  • War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

    War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

  • They Fought for Their Motherland

    They Fought for Their Motherland

  • War and Peace

    War and Peace

  • VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

    VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

  • Fate of a Man

    Fate of a Man

  • ¡Qué Viva México!

    ¡Qué Viva México!

  • Boris Godunov

    Boris Godunov

  • The Young Guard

    The Young Guard

  • Story of a Real Man

    Story of a Real Man

  • Othello

    Othello

  • Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya

  • Taras Shevchenko

    Taras Shevchenko

  • The Golden Gates

    The Golden Gates

  • Velvet Season

    Velvet Season

  • The Grasshopper

    The Grasshopper

  • Attack from the Sea

    Attack from the Sea

  • A Summer to Remember

    A Summer to Remember

  • Quiet Flows the Don

    Quiet Flows the Don

  • Unfinished Story

    Unfinished Story

  • Silence of Doctor Ivens

    Silence of Doctor Ivens

  • Life in Bloom

    Life in Bloom

  • One Day of Mosfilm

    One Day of Mosfilm

  • Dream of a Cossack

    Dream of a Cossack

  • Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

    Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

  • The Steppe

    The Steppe

  • Escape by Night

    Escape by Night

  • Andriesh

    Andriesh

  • Stars Meet in Moscow

    Stars Meet in Moscow

  • Take-Off

    Take-Off

  • Легенды кино

    Легенды кино

  • Woina i Mir

    Woina i Mir

  • Old Times in Poshekhonye

    Old Times in Poshekhonye

  • The Mountain Woman

    The Mountain Woman

  • The Gadfly

    The Gadfly

  • Soldiers Were Walking

    Soldiers Were Walking

  • Red Bells

    Red Bells

  • Ernst Schneller

    Ernst Schneller

  • Gnat

    Gnat

  • The Airport Incident

    The Airport Incident

  • Such High Mountains

    Such High Mountains

  • Thunder Over Rus'

    Thunder Over Rus'

  • Profession: Film Actor

    Profession: Film Actor

  • Choice of Purpose

    Choice of Purpose