Savva Yakovlevich Kulish (; 17 October 1936 – 9 June 2001) was a Soviet

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

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. He directed eight films between 1966 and 1994. His 1979 film ''

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'' won the Silver Prize at the

11th Moscow International Film Festival The 11th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 14 to 28 August 1979. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Italian-French film ''Christ Stopped at Eboli (film), Christ Stopped at Eboli'' directed by Francesco Rosi, the Spanish film ''S ...

. He was awarded with the

People's Artist of Russia People's Artist of the Russian Federation (, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an honorary and the highest title awarded to citizens of the Russian Federation ...

in 1995.Указ Президента РФ от 19 октября 1995 г. N 1062 «О присвоении почётных званий Российской Федерации»

Selected filmography

* '' Dead Season'' (1968) — director * ''

'' (1979) — director * '' Fairy tales... fairy tales... fairy tales of the old Arbat'' (1982) — director, screenwriter * '' Fouetté'' (1986) — screenwriter * ''

Tragedy, Rock Style ''Tragedy, Rock Style'' () is a 1988 Soviet crime drama film directed by Savva Kulish. Plot The film tells about a young man named Viktor Bodrov, who is invited to court in the case of his father, accused of major fraud. Leaving the courthouse, ...

'' (1988) — director, screenwriter * ''

Stalin's Funeral Joseph Stalin, second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at his Kuntsevo Dacha after suffering a stroke, at age 74. He was given a state funeral in Moscow on 9 March, with four days of national mourning declared. On the day of th ...

'' (1990) — actor

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* 1936 births 2001 deaths Soviet film directors Soviet screenwriters Soviet male screenwriters Russian film directors Russian male screenwriters Film people from Odesa People's Artists of Russia Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery 20th-century Russian screenwriters 20th-century Russian male writers {{USSR-film-director-stub