Yevgeny Yefimovich Karelov (Russian: Евгений Ефимович
Карелов; 12 October 1931 â€" 11 July 1977) was a Soviet film
director and screenwriter known for comedy movies, war dramas and
children's films. He was named Meritorious Artist of RSFSR in
1974.Karelov was born in the Bogorodskoye village (known as
Bogorodskoye urban-type settlement today) into a peasant family, one
of the four children. His parents soon moved to Drezna and applied to
a secondary school: his mother Maria Andreevna Karelova â€" as a
teacher, and his father Yefim Trofimovich Karelov â€" as a stoker and
gardener. During the early 1950s the family moved to Podolsk.In 1949
Yevgeny tried to enter VGIK, but failed and entered the regional
Pedagogical University, Faculty of Physical Culture. In a year he
successfully entered VGIK and in 1955 he finished the directing
courses led by Grigori Aleksandrov and started working at Mosfilm.
Simultaneously he finished the Pedagogical University and joined the
Federation of Sport Movies to promote sports culture. Among his
projects was a war drama The Third Half (1962) about The Death Match
that happened in the Nazi-occupied Kiev, a TV comedy Seven Old Men and
a Girl (1968) about a young coach assigned to train a group of
"hopeless" elderly men and a screenplay When I'm a King dedicated to
the Soviet ice hockey coach Yuri Ulianov which was made into a
documentary after his death.In 1968 Karelov directed Two Comrades Were
Serving where Oleg Yankovsky played one of his first roles (his debut
film The Shield and the Sword was released same year). It depicted the
events of the Russian Civil War shown from both Red and White
perspectives. The White Army poruchik Alexander Brusentsov played by
Vladimir Vysotsky turned into one of his biggest movie roles in the
entire career. Karelov later returned to revolutionary events with
Those Who Saved Fire (1970) and the High Rank dilogy (1973â€"1974),
both with Evgeny Matveev in the lead, director's favourite actor and a
close friend.
Карелов; 12 October 1931 â€" 11 July 1977) was a Soviet film
director and screenwriter known for comedy movies, war dramas and
children's films. He was named Meritorious Artist of RSFSR in
1974.Karelov was born in the Bogorodskoye village (known as
Bogorodskoye urban-type settlement today) into a peasant family, one
of the four children. His parents soon moved to Drezna and applied to
a secondary school: his mother Maria Andreevna Karelova â€" as a
teacher, and his father Yefim Trofimovich Karelov â€" as a stoker and
gardener. During the early 1950s the family moved to Podolsk.In 1949
Yevgeny tried to enter VGIK, but failed and entered the regional
Pedagogical University, Faculty of Physical Culture. In a year he
successfully entered VGIK and in 1955 he finished the directing
courses led by Grigori Aleksandrov and started working at Mosfilm.
Simultaneously he finished the Pedagogical University and joined the
Federation of Sport Movies to promote sports culture. Among his
projects was a war drama The Third Half (1962) about The Death Match
that happened in the Nazi-occupied Kiev, a TV comedy Seven Old Men and
a Girl (1968) about a young coach assigned to train a group of
"hopeless" elderly men and a screenplay When I'm a King dedicated to
the Soviet ice hockey coach Yuri Ulianov which was made into a
documentary after his death.In 1968 Karelov directed Two Comrades Were
Serving where Oleg Yankovsky played one of his first roles (his debut
film The Shield and the Sword was released same year). It depicted the
events of the Russian Civil War shown from both Red and White
perspectives. The White Army poruchik Alexander Brusentsov played by
Vladimir Vysotsky turned into one of his biggest movie roles in the
entire career. Karelov later returned to revolutionary events with
Those Who Saved Fire (1970) and the High Rank dilogy (1973â€"1974),
both with Evgeny Matveev in the lead, director's favourite actor and a
close friend.
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