Boris Valentinovich Durov (Russian: Ð'ориÑ
Ð'алентинович Ð"уров; 12 March 1937 â€" 5 April 2007)
was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. His 1979
action film Pirates of the 20th Century became the highest-grossing
Soviet movie of all time. He was named Merited Artist of the Russian
Federation in 2000.Boris Durov was born in Sloviansk, Ukrainian SSR
(modern-day Ukraine). He finished the Kazan Suvorov Military School in
1955 and the Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School in 1960.
At that point he decided not to continue the military career and
entered the director's faculty at VGIK. He studied under Yakov Segel
along with Stanislav Govorukhin.Upon graduation in 1967 they
co-directed their first feature film: Vertical. It was one of the
first Soviet movies dedicated to mountaineering and also featured
Vladimir Vysotsky in a minor role. As Vysotsky later recalled, "it was
my first movie in the sense that I worked as an author (for the first
time I wrote songs for a movie) â€" I was the author of both songs and
music". All songs turned into instant hits, they were released by the
Melodiya record label on the extended play and basically started
Vysotsky's musical career. The movie itself became one of the leaders
of the 1967 Soviet box office, reaching the 13th place (10th place
among Soviet-produced movies) with 32.8 million viewers.Since then
Durov had worked at various studios (Odessa Film Studio, Studio Ekran,
Gorky Film Studio, Moldova-Film) directing movies in various genres,
from drama and comedy to adventure and children's films. Yet none of
them matched the success of his first film or that of Govorukhin's
movies. In 1979 they teamed up again and wrote a screenplay for what
would be known as the first Soviet action film â€" Pirates of the 20th
Century.
Ð'алентинович Ð"уров; 12 March 1937 â€" 5 April 2007)
was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. His 1979
action film Pirates of the 20th Century became the highest-grossing
Soviet movie of all time. He was named Merited Artist of the Russian
Federation in 2000.Boris Durov was born in Sloviansk, Ukrainian SSR
(modern-day Ukraine). He finished the Kazan Suvorov Military School in
1955 and the Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School in 1960.
At that point he decided not to continue the military career and
entered the director's faculty at VGIK. He studied under Yakov Segel
along with Stanislav Govorukhin.Upon graduation in 1967 they
co-directed their first feature film: Vertical. It was one of the
first Soviet movies dedicated to mountaineering and also featured
Vladimir Vysotsky in a minor role. As Vysotsky later recalled, "it was
my first movie in the sense that I worked as an author (for the first
time I wrote songs for a movie) â€" I was the author of both songs and
music". All songs turned into instant hits, they were released by the
Melodiya record label on the extended play and basically started
Vysotsky's musical career. The movie itself became one of the leaders
of the 1967 Soviet box office, reaching the 13th place (10th place
among Soviet-produced movies) with 32.8 million viewers.Since then
Durov had worked at various studios (Odessa Film Studio, Studio Ekran,
Gorky Film Studio, Moldova-Film) directing movies in various genres,
from drama and comedy to adventure and children's films. Yet none of
them matched the success of his first film or that of Govorukhin's
movies. In 1979 they teamed up again and wrote a screenplay for what
would be known as the first Soviet action film â€" Pirates of the 20th
Century.
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