Grigori Kozintsev

Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григо́рий Миха́йлович Ко́зинцев; Kiev, 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 – Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, 11 May 1973) was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.

He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts. As a theatre director he was part of Eccentricism, a modernist avant garde movement that spanned Russian futurism and constructivism, which included the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold and Sergei Eisenstein. Kozintsev contributed the "Salvation in the Trousers" section to the Eccentric Manifesto, published on 9 July 1922 (the other contributors were Leonid Trauberg, Sergei Yutkevich and Georgii Kryzhitskii) and was involved with the Factory of the Eccentric Actor group. Some of his early films were launched under the FEKS label.

He began making films in 1921. His silent features, including The Overcoat (1926) and The New Babylon (1929), had a ring of Expressionism, while the early sound film Alone (1931) used experimental montage sound techniques. Kozintsev is most renowned by his adaptations of William Shakespeare (King Lear and Hamlet) and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Filmography

Note: all films before 1947 are co-directed with Leonid Trauberg

Year	Original Title	English Title	Notes
1924	Похождения Октябрины	The Adventures of Oktyabrina	director; screenwriter film is lost
1925	Мишки против Юденича	Mishki versus Yudenich	director; screenwriter film is lost
1926	Чёртово колесо	The Devil's Wheel	director
	Шинель	The Overcoat	director
1927	С.В.Д.	The Club of the Big Deed	director
	Братишка	Little Brother	director; screenwriter film is lost
1929	Новый Вавилон	The New Babylon	director; screenwriter
1931	Одна	Alone	director; screenwriter
1934	Юность Максима	The Youth of Maxim	director; screenwriter
1937	Возвращение Максима	The Return of Maxim	director; screenwriter
1938	Выборгская сторона	The Vyborg Side	director; screenwriter
1943	Юный Фриц	The Young Fritz	director film is lost
1946	Простые люди	Simple People	director; screenwriter
1947	Пирогов	Pirogov	director
1953	Белинский	Belinsky	director; screenwriter
1957	Дон Кихот	Don Quixote	director
1964	Гамлет	Hamlet	director; screenwriter
1971	Король Лир	King Lear	director; screenwriter

Sources

• Kolocotroni, Vassiliki, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou, eds. 1998. Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0748609733.

External links

• Grigori Kozintsev at the Internet Movie Database