FILM DIRECTOR

Grigori Kozintsev

1905 - 1973

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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigori Kozintsev has received more than 91,667 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Grigori Kozintsev is the 558th most popular film director (up from 580th in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 403rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Grigori Kozintsev ranks 558 out of 2,041. Before him are Uli Edel, Zoltán Fábri, Gore Verbinski, David O. Russell, Anja Breien, and George Albert Smith. After him are David Byrne, King Hu, František Čáp, Thelma Schoonmaker, Sergei Yutkevich, and Chris Menges.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Grigori Kozintsev ranks 141. Before him are Robert Donat, Ángel Bossio, Clarence Zener, Mohammad Hidayatullah, Sven Rydell, and Louis Rosier. After him are Fumiko Enchi, Zdeněk Burian, Manuel Ferreira, Tore Keller, Jan Gies, and Dmitri Shepilov. Among people deceased in 1973, Grigori Kozintsev ranks 122. Before him are Mirra Alfassa, Karel Ančerl, Robert Watson-Watt, Henry Darger, Johannes Aavik, and Âşık Veysel. After him are Vilhelm Moberg, Alexander Vandegrift, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Nikolay Kamov, Archduchess Isabella of Austria, and Jim Croce.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Grigori Kozintsev ranks 410 out of 1,365. Before him are Leonid Bykov (1928), Yevgenia Bosch (1879), Jacques Bergier (1912), Lev Mekhlis (1889), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), and Israel Zolli (1881). After him are Lev Kopelev (1912), Pyotr Koshevoy (1904), Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), and Roman Rudenko (1907).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Grigori Kozintsev ranks 10. Before him are Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), and Richard Boleslawski (1889). After him are Grigory Chukhray (1921), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Les Kurbas (1887), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Roman Karmen (1906).

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Filmography

Hamlet
Director
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as the "stone prison" of the mind wherein Hamlet must confine himself in order to avenge his father's death. Hamlet himself is portrayed (by Innokenti Smoktunovsky) as the sole sensitive intellectual in a world made up of debauchers and revellers. Several of Kozintsev directorial choices seem deliberately calculated to inflame the purists: Hamlet's delivers his "To be or not to be" soliloquy with his back to the camera, allowing the audience to fill in its own interpretations.
Jun 24th 19647.2 / 10
The New Babylon
Director
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
Jan 1st 19296 / 10
King Lear
Director
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Dec 15th 19706.7 / 10