Background
CHUKHRAI, Grigoriy was born on May 23, 1921 in Melitopol, Zaporozhye Region. Son of Naum Vladimirovich Roubanov and Klardia Petrovna Chukhrai.
CHUKHRAI, Grigoriy was born on May 23, 1921 in Melitopol, Zaporozhye Region. Son of Naum Vladimirovich Roubanov and Klardia Petrovna Chukhrai.
All-Union State Institute of Cinematography.
The 41st 1956. Ballad of a Soldier 1959, The Clear Sky 1961, There Lived an Old Man and Old Woman 1964, Memory 1967, Quagmire 1978, Life is Beautiful 1980, I Will Teach You to Dream 1984. leisure interest: the theory of economics.A participant in the Finnish war and World War II. Wounded five times, returned to Moscow with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Guards. In 1946 entered the director’s faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Worked as an assistant director in M. Romm’s Admiral Nakhimov.
In 1956, filmed the second screen version of Boris Lavrenev’s story The Forty First (the first was made in 1927 by Iakov Protazanov). His advisers were Sergei Iutkevich and Mikhail Romm. His treatment of a love story concerning a Red Army soldier girl and a White nobleman officer made a sensation.
Second film, The Ballad of a Soldier (1959. Mosfilm), brought him immediate international fame and was awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. A Clear Sky (1961, Mosfilm) was another sensation in the Soviet Union with its antiStalinist subject matter.
Other films: There Lived an Old Woman and an Old Man( 1965, Mosfilm), Memory (1971), Untypical Story (1977), They Made Him A Criminal(1979, made in Italy). From the mid-1970s, turned to administrative work in the film industry. His first three films have become modern Soviet classics.
CPSU since 1944.
Married Irina Pavlovna Penkova in 1944.
