Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin (; 3 November 1924 – 31 March 2020) was a Russian playwright. He was born in

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, and studied at Azerbaijan University and at the

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in Moscow. He is author of plays and screenplays. His most performed work is ''A Warsaw Melody'' (1967).

Selected filmography

* '' 20,000 Leagues Across the Land'' (1960) * ''

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'' (1961) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1961) * '' Friends and Years'' (1965) * ''

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'' (1966) * ''

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'' (1970) * '' Grandmaster'' (1972) * '' Kind Men'' (1979) * '' The Transit'' (1982) * ''

The Pokrovsky Gate ''The Pokrovsky Gate'' () is a 1982 Soviet musical comedy-drama film produced for television by Mosfilm. It was directed by Mikhail Kozakov and stars Oleg Menshikov, Leonid Bronevoy, and Inna Ulyanova. The screenplay is based on a 1974 stage p ...

'' (1982)Леонид Зорин впервые стал Лауреатом
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'' (1990)

References

1924 births 2020 deaths Writers from Baku Soviet dramatists and playwrights Male dramatists and playwrights Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Russian dramatists and playwrights Russian male writers 21st-century Russian male writers Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Baku State University alumni Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni {{USSR-bio-stub