Background
Khutsiev, Marten was born on October 4, 1925 in Tbilisi of Georgian parents but grew up in Moscow.
Khutsiev, Marten was born on October 4, 1925 in Tbilisi of Georgian parents but grew up in Moscow.
Graduated in 1955.
Returned to Tbilisi to attend school. Worked atthe Tbilisi Film Studios as a photographic assistant for one year. Returned to Moscow and entered the Directors’ Faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
First Film, Spring on Zarechnaia Street, produced by Odessa Film Studios in 1956, a fresh treatment of a modern theme about young people. Became famous with I Am Twenty (Mosfilm, 1965) and July Rain (Mosfilm, 1967). Both films are still discussed on the pages of the film press.
Other films: Two Fedors(Odessa Film Studios, 1958, based on Anatolii Kuznetsov’s story), In the Month of May (Mosfilm, 1970), and The Scarlet Sail of Paris (Ekran TV Studios, 1973).