Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Russian: Игорь ФÑ'дорович
ÐœÐ°Ñ Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð²; born 26 October 1931) is a Soviet and Russian
film director.Maslennikov was born in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1954 he
completed his education in the department of journalism of the
Leningrad University and worked as an editor, script writer, and
cameraman on Leningrad television. In 1965 he entered the Higher
Directors' Courses of Lenfilm (Grigori Kozintsev's workshop), at end
of which he became the director of this motion picture studio.In the
cinema, Maslennikov made his debut at the end of the 1960s with a film
about a senior pupil: the Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentin. He
directed children's films (Tomorrow" and "3 April), movies about
sports (Racers), historical costume-dramas (Yaroslavna, the Queen of
France). He worked on the joint Soviet-Norwegian picture Under a Stone
Sky, which narrates the sad events which occurred in one of the
Norwegian towns during the Nazi occupation. He filmed Vera Panova's
autobiographical Sentimental novel.Enormous success came to
Maslennikov when he directed a cycle of films about Sherlock Holmes
and Doctor Watson. The successful selection of the actors, among whom
there were Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Boryslav Brondukov, Rina
Zelyonaya, Nikita Mikhalkov and the outstanding talent of the director
ensured audience's love to the film.
ÐœÐ°Ñ Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð²; born 26 October 1931) is a Soviet and Russian
film director.Maslennikov was born in Nizhny Novgorod. In 1954 he
completed his education in the department of journalism of the
Leningrad University and worked as an editor, script writer, and
cameraman on Leningrad television. In 1965 he entered the Higher
Directors' Courses of Lenfilm (Grigori Kozintsev's workshop), at end
of which he became the director of this motion picture studio.In the
cinema, Maslennikov made his debut at the end of the 1960s with a film
about a senior pupil: the Personal Life of Kuzyaev Valentin. He
directed children's films (Tomorrow" and "3 April), movies about
sports (Racers), historical costume-dramas (Yaroslavna, the Queen of
France). He worked on the joint Soviet-Norwegian picture Under a Stone
Sky, which narrates the sad events which occurred in one of the
Norwegian towns during the Nazi occupation. He filmed Vera Panova's
autobiographical Sentimental novel.Enormous success came to
Maslennikov when he directed a cycle of films about Sherlock Holmes
and Doctor Watson. The successful selection of the actors, among whom
there were Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin, Boryslav Brondukov, Rina
Zelyonaya, Nikita Mikhalkov and the outstanding talent of the director
ensured audience's love to the film.
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