Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
83
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-09-25
Day of Death
1994-10-20 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR
Also Known As
Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук
Sergei Bondarchuk
Сергей Бондарчук
Sergej Bondartschuk
Сергій Бондарчук
Serguéi Fiódorovich Bondarchuk
Sergueï Bondartchouk
Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Sergueï Fiodorovitch Bondartchouk
Sergey Bondarchuk
Biography
Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.
