Boris Buneev (1921-2015) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. He was awarded the title of

Merited Artist of the Russian Federation Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...

in 1973, and won the

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, Gosudarstvennaya premiya SSSR) was the Soviet Union's state honor. It was established on 9 September 1966. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, t ...

in 1974 for the film "The Last Meeting".

Biography

Boris Buneev graduated from the directing department of

VGIK The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени Sergei Gerasimov (film director), С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-R ...

in 1944, as part of Sergey Eisenstein's masterclass. In 1944-1949, he was a director at

Mosfilm Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output inclu ...

, and then in 1949-1951 and 1952-2005, at the

Gorky Film Studio Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed ...

. His first film was ''Glorious Path'' (1949).

Selected filmography

* 1949 - '' Glorious Path'' * 1951 - ''On the Steppe'' * 1953 - ''

Mysterious Discovery ''Mysterious Discovery'' (Russian: Таинственная находка) is a 1953 Soviet family adventure film directed by Boris Buneev. Plot Three schoolchildren from a polar settlement find an old gun. Trying to figure out its origin, they ...

'' * 1956 - '' For the Power of the Soviets'' * 1959 - ''The Man from Planet Earth'' * 1962 - ''The Ends of the Earth'' * 1971 - ''Khutorok v stepi'' * 1974 - ''The Last Meeting'' * 1976 - ''

Duck Village. A Tale. ''Duck Village. A Tale.'' (russian: Деревня Утка) is a 1976 Soviet family film directed by Boris Buneev. Plot The film tells about a girl named Olya, who spends her holidays with her grandmother and learns from her that a brownie live ...

'' * 1979 - ''The Evil Spirit of Yambuy'' * 1987 - ''Silnee vsekh inykh veleniy''

External links

* https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120439/?ref_=tt_ov_dr * https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/301212/

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buneev, Boris 1921 births 2015 deaths Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Soviet film directors