Gleb Panfilov
Born: 1934-05-21 in Magnitogorsk, USSR (Russia)
Died: 2023-08-26
Known For: Directing
Biography
Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023; Magnitogorsk) was a Soviet and Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova. His first film "No Path Through Fire" won the Golden Leopard at the 22nd Locarno International Film Festival (1969). He also won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival (1987) for the film "The Theme". In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to theatre directing, but also found time to adapt for the screen Alexander Vampilov's play Valentina (1981), as well as Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova (1983) and Mother (1989). Vassa won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival and Russia's State Prize. He won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Theme. Despite the hardships of the 1990s Panfilov was committed to directing The Romanovs: An Imperial Family, an epic story of the Romanov sainthood. The film, finally released in 2000, was a sort of family project involving his wife as well as children. It was also his first movie that did not feature his wife in a leading role. In 2000 at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival Panfilov was awarded an Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema. In January 2006 RTR TV aired Panfilov's miniseries based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. The Nobel Prize-winning author helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film. Gleb Panfilov died on 26 August 2023, at the age of 89.
Filmography
2021
- 100 Minutes ... (Director)
2019
- Audience ... (Director)
2015
- Lie for Salvation ... (Director)
- Георгий Данелия. Великий обманщик as Self
2013
- Aquitaine Lioness ... (Director)
2011
- Burnt by the Sun 2 ... (Writer)
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel ... (Writer)
2010
- Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus ... (Writer)
2008
- Guilty Without Guilt ... (Editor)
2007
- Keep Forever ... (Screenplay)
2006
- The First Circle ... (Director)
2005
2000
- The Romanovs: A Crowned Family ... (Director)
1990
- Mother ... (Director)
1989
- Hamlet ... (Director)
1983
- Vassa ... (Director)
1979
- The Theme ... (Director)
1978
- The Man Who Was Lucky ... (Screenplay)
1977
- Stepan's Remembrance ... (Writer)
1976
- I Wish to Speak ... (Director)
1970
- The Beginning ... (Director)
1967
- No Path Through Fire ... (Director)
- On the Set of «Andrey Rublev» ... (Director)
1964
- The Kurt Clausewitz Case ... (Director)
- Case at the Station Krechetovka ... (Director)
1962
- Nina Melovizinova ... (Director)
- Not Killed in the War ... (Director)
1959
- Regain Our Ranks! ... (Director)
1958
- Nylon Jacket ... (Director)
- People's Police ... (Director)