Grigori Kozintsev is remembered on screen for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Grigori Kozintsev as Soviet film director (1905-1973).
Grigori Kozintsev was born at Kyiv in 1905. His recorded nationality is Russia.
The studio system was at its height in this period: contracts were long, the output was industrial, and a handful of studios decided who worked.
He worked as film director, screenwriter and theatre director.
A film outlives its reviews, its budget and usually its studio; what remains is whether anyone still watches it.
Recognition followed: Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1939).
That the work was made from Russia shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Grigori Kozintsev died in 1973, aged 68. The films remain, which is the only form in which a screen career survives.
Achievements
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour — 1939
- Worked as film director, screenwriter and theatre director
