FILM DIRECTOR

Sergei Bondarchuk

1920 - 1994

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Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk ГСТ HaCCP (25 September 1920 – 20 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker of Ukrainian origin, who was one of the leading figures of Russian cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping period dramas, including War and Peace (1965–67), his internationally acclaimed four-part film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel, and for Waterloo (1970) a Napoleonic War epic. Bondarchuk's work won him numerous international accolades. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergei Bondarchuk has received more than 508,136 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Sergei Bondarchuk is the 119th most popular film director (up from 154th in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 105th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Sergei Bondarchuk is most famous for his work as a film director, primarily for his adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Sergei Bondarchuk ranks 119 out of 2,041. Before him are Otar Iosseliani, Manoel de Oliveira, Jules Dassin, Peter Jackson, Jerzy Grotowski, and David Lean. After him are John Woo, Howard Hawks, Victor Fleming, Jiří Menzel, Wes Craven, and Claude Lelouch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Sergei Bondarchuk ranks 35. Before him are Zecharia Sitchin, Fritz Walter, Clarice Lispector, Montgomery Clift, Walter Matthau, and Douglass North. After him are John Demjanjuk, Alberto Sordi, Ravi Shankar, Sun Myung Moon, Gunnar Gren, and Kaysone Phomvihane. Among people deceased in 1994, Sergei Bondarchuk ranks 35. Before him are Domenico Modugno, Robert Doisneau, George Peppard, André Michel Lwoff, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, and Henry Mancini. After him are Gian Maria Volonté, Marija Gimbutas, Juvénal Habyarimana, Pierre Boulle, Niels Kaj Jerne, and Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Sergei Bondarchuk ranks 101 out of 1,365. Before him are Trofim Lysenko (1898), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), and Roman Shukhevych (1907). After him are John Demjanjuk (1920), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Karol Szymanowski (1882), Lev Shestov (1866), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), and Gregory Skovoroda (1722).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Sergei Bondarchuk ranks 2. Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940). After him are Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936).

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Filmography

Waterloo
Director
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Oct 26o 19707.121 / 10
War and Peace
Director
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Apr 28o 19687.6 / 10
Fate of a Man
Director
The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory...
Aug 1o 19597.609 / 10