Aleksey Aleksandrovich Saltykov (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÐ¹
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Салтыков; 13 May 1934 â€" 8 April
1993) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980).Saltykov was born in Moscow to
Russian parents. His father Aleksandr Saltykov worked as an engineer
at the Moscow Kremlin. With the start of the Great Patriotic War he
was sent to the front line and killed near Sevastopol in 1941. His
family stayed in Moscow. Aleksey's mother baptized him and his sister
shortly before the Battle of Moscow, which they eventually survived.
She never married again and raised the children by herself.At the age
of 14 Saltykov had to become a factory worker because of the poor
living conditions. He also visited an evening school and at one point
decided to join VGIK. In 1961 he finished director's courses led by
Sergei Gerasimov. His first feature film My Friend, Kolka! was
released the same year, co-directed by Aleksander Mitta. It was seen
by 23.8 million viewers. Along with his next movie Bang the Drum it
established him as one of the most promising children's film
directors, but Saltykov decided otherwise.In 1964 he directed a
post-war drama The Chairman. Based on the screenplay by Yuri Nagibin,
it told a fictionalized story of a real-life Belarusian partisan
Kirill Orlovsky (named Egor Trubnikov in the movie) who lost his arm
during the war, then headed one of the ruined kolkhozes and turned it
into the most prosperous countryside. He was portrayed by Mikhail
Ulyanov in The Chairman. The movie also featured a number of themes
unusual for the cinema of that era, including post-war hunger,
bureaucracy that prevented quicker recovery, lack of men and
repressive methods of NKVD. At the same time, it showed the strength
of village people who rebuilt the countryside from scratch despite
everything.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Салтыков; 13 May 1934 â€" 8 April
1993) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980).Saltykov was born in Moscow to
Russian parents. His father Aleksandr Saltykov worked as an engineer
at the Moscow Kremlin. With the start of the Great Patriotic War he
was sent to the front line and killed near Sevastopol in 1941. His
family stayed in Moscow. Aleksey's mother baptized him and his sister
shortly before the Battle of Moscow, which they eventually survived.
She never married again and raised the children by herself.At the age
of 14 Saltykov had to become a factory worker because of the poor
living conditions. He also visited an evening school and at one point
decided to join VGIK. In 1961 he finished director's courses led by
Sergei Gerasimov. His first feature film My Friend, Kolka! was
released the same year, co-directed by Aleksander Mitta. It was seen
by 23.8 million viewers. Along with his next movie Bang the Drum it
established him as one of the most promising children's film
directors, but Saltykov decided otherwise.In 1964 he directed a
post-war drama The Chairman. Based on the screenplay by Yuri Nagibin,
it told a fictionalized story of a real-life Belarusian partisan
Kirill Orlovsky (named Egor Trubnikov in the movie) who lost his arm
during the war, then headed one of the ruined kolkhozes and turned it
into the most prosperous countryside. He was portrayed by Mikhail
Ulyanov in The Chairman. The movie also featured a number of themes
unusual for the cinema of that era, including post-war hunger,
bureaucracy that prevented quicker recovery, lack of men and
repressive methods of NKVD. At the same time, it showed the strength
of village people who rebuilt the countryside from scratch despite
everything.
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