Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fetin (Russian: Ð'ладимир
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Фетин; 14 October 1925 â€" 20 August
1981) was a Soviet film director. He was named Merited Artist of the
RSFSR in 1975.Vladimir Fetin was born in Moscow into a noble
Russian-German Fetting family which traced its history to Pyotr
Ivanovich Fetting (born Pierre Friedrich de Fetting), a military
engineer who moved to the Russian Empire from Berlin in 1812. In 1943
he was enlisted in the Red Army and fought in the first reserve
artillery corpse. He changed several professions after the war, then
entered the director's faculty at VGIK, a workshop led by Sergei
Gerasimov which he finished in 1959.His diploma short The Colt based
on Mikhail Sholokhov's story saw a theatrical release by Lenfilm where
he had been working since. It was compared favourably with the French
movie White Mane by foreign critique. Fetting's surname appeared as
"Fetin" in the credits, he adopted it and used in all of his movies.In
1960 he was approached with an ambitious screenplay of a comedy about
a ship overran by tigers. It was written with the famous tiger tamer
Margarita Nazarova in mind who agreed to play the main part while her
husband and circus partner Konstantin Konstantinovsky was to manage
tigers and perform various stunts. Striped Trip was shot on board of a
motor vessel in the Black Sea, with ten tigers, a lion and a
chimpanzee acting along with popular comedy actors. It was released in
1961 to an overwhelming success, becoming the Soviet box leader with
45.8 mln viewers.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Фетин; 14 October 1925 â€" 20 August
1981) was a Soviet film director. He was named Merited Artist of the
RSFSR in 1975.Vladimir Fetin was born in Moscow into a noble
Russian-German Fetting family which traced its history to Pyotr
Ivanovich Fetting (born Pierre Friedrich de Fetting), a military
engineer who moved to the Russian Empire from Berlin in 1812. In 1943
he was enlisted in the Red Army and fought in the first reserve
artillery corpse. He changed several professions after the war, then
entered the director's faculty at VGIK, a workshop led by Sergei
Gerasimov which he finished in 1959.His diploma short The Colt based
on Mikhail Sholokhov's story saw a theatrical release by Lenfilm where
he had been working since. It was compared favourably with the French
movie White Mane by foreign critique. Fetting's surname appeared as
"Fetin" in the credits, he adopted it and used in all of his movies.In
1960 he was approached with an ambitious screenplay of a comedy about
a ship overran by tigers. It was written with the famous tiger tamer
Margarita Nazarova in mind who agreed to play the main part while her
husband and circus partner Konstantin Konstantinovsky was to manage
tigers and perform various stunts. Striped Trip was shot on board of a
motor vessel in the Black Sea, with ten tigers, a lion and a
chimpanzee acting along with popular comedy actors. It was released in
1961 to an overwhelming success, becoming the Soviet box leader with
45.8 mln viewers.
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