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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 22 March [O.S. 9 March] 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Hamlet ( Russian: Гамлет, romanized : Gamlet) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare 's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro [ ru], and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet .
Kozintsev was the head of master-class for film directors at Lenfilm Studios from 1964-1971. He wrote essays on William Shakespeare, Sergei Eisenstein, Charles Chaplin, and Vsevolod Meyerhold and published theoretical works on film direction. Grigori Kozintsev lived near Lenfilm Stidios in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) for the most part of his life.
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Sep 22, 2017 · Its creator, Grigori Kosintsev, was one of the finest screen directors of Shakespeare and the story behind his cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s greatest play, which involves a cast list of famous writers, famous composers and famous dictators, is one of the most fascinating “back stories” of any Shakespeare movie.
Translation. (1905–1973), Soviet film director. Grigorii Kozintsev began his career as a student of the artist Aleksandra Ekster; after the revolution, he organized large-scale street theater. In 1920 he entered the studio school of the Petrograd Academy of Arts.
Jun 27, 2024 · More than two centuries ago Voltaire made a telling remark: 'All the arts are brothers, each one is a light to the other.'. The career of Grigori Kozintsev (1905-73) as an interpreter of Shakespeare in Russian theatre, cinema and literary criticism is a striking illustration of this maxim.
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Oct 19, 2021 · Grigori Kozintsev was a Ukrainian, Russian, and Soviet theater and film director, particularly known in the West for his film adaptations of Hamlet and King Lear. This entry traces Kozintsev’s career in theater and film, which began soon after the October Revolution, when Kozintsev started training as an artist and stage designer in Kiev.
