Ivan Pyryev

Directing·Nov 17, 1901·Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire

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Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (17 November 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry. Pyryev was born in Kamen-na-Obi, in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Altai Krai, Russia). His early career included acting on stage directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold in The Forest and by Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletcult Theatre production The Mexican. Pyryev also acted in Eisenstein's first short film Glumov's Diary. Pyryev's early career included production jobs behind the camera, such as work for director Yuri Tarich. He débuted as a director in the age of silent film, with Strange Woman (1929). During the 1930s and 1940s Pyryev rivaled Grigori Aleksandrov as the country's most successful director of musical comedies, all of which starred his wife Marina Ladynina. Even during wartime, when the Soviet film industry had been evacuated to Alma-Ata, Pyryev made popular and light-hearted features. In Six O'Clock after the War is Over the Romantic characters (played by Ladynina and Yevgeny Samoilov), when separated by war, arrange a date at 6 PM on the Victory Day, and the victory celebrations are shown towards the end of the film (which was released in November 1944).

Film	Credit
The Brothers Karamazov1969 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Light of a Distant Star1965 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Our Mutual Friend1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
White Nights1960 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Idiot1958 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Devotion1954 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Friendship Triumphs1951 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Cossacks of the Kuban1950 · Director	Director
Tale of the Siberian Land1947 · Director	Director
Rich Bride1946 · Director	Director
Six O'Clock in the Evening After the War1944 · Director	Director
18121943 · Producer	Producer
The District Secretary1942 · Director	Director
Swineherd and Shepherd1941 · Director	Director
The Beloved1940 · Director	Director
Tractor Drivers1939 · Director	Director
Anna1936 · Director	Director
Conveyor of Death1933 · Director	Director
TTurner Alekseev1931 · Screenplay	Screenplay
The Civil Servant1931 · Director	Director
Be Like This1930 · Writer	Writer
The Other Woman1929 · Director	Director
Torn-Off Sleeves1928 · Writer	Writer
Glumov's Diary1923 · Fascist Clown	Fascist Clown