Mikhail Kalatozov

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This article is about the film director. For his grandson and film director, see Mikheil Kalatozishvili (born 1959).

Mikhail Kalatozov
Born	Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov (1903-12-28)28 December 1903 Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia
Died	27 March 1973(1973-03-27) (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1928–1971
Notable work(s)	Salt for Svanetia, The Cranes Are Flying, The Unsent Letter, I Am Cuba, The Red Tent

Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov (Georgian: მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, Russian: Михаи́л Константи́нович Калато́зов) (28 December 1903 – 27 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Georgian/Russian film director. Born in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), he studied economics before starting his film career as an actor and later cinematographer.

He directed several documentary films, including Salt for Svanetia (1930), but was forced to withdraw from his profession after his film Nail in the Boot (1931) was banned by Stalinist censors. During World War II he directed several propaganda films and worked as a cultural attaché at the Soviet embassy in the United States.

During the 1950s he directed several other films. His four final features, The Cranes Are Flying (1957), The Unsent Letter (1959), I Am Cuba (1964), and The Red Tent (1971), are among his most famous works.^[1]

He died in Moscow.

Filmography

1928 Their Empire; co-directed with Nutsa Gogoberidze
1930 The Blind Woman; lost film
1930 Salt for Svanetia; documentary
1931 Nail in the Boot
1939 Courage
1941 Valery Chkalov
1942 Invincible
1950 Plot of the Doomed
1953 Hostile Whirlwinds
1954 True Friends
1955 The First Echelon
1957 The Cranes Are Flying
1959 The Unsent Letter
1964 I Am Cuba
1971 The Red Tent

References

↑ Chansel, Dominique (2001). Europe on-screen: cinema and the teaching of history. Council of Europe. p. 53. ISBN 978-92-871-4531-4.

External links

v t e Films directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

Their Empire The Blind Woman Salt for Svanetia Nail in the Boot Courage Valery Chkalov Invincible Plot of the Doomed Hostile Whirlwinds True Friends First Echelon The Cranes Are Flying The Unsent Letter I Am Cuba The Red Tent

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 7546853 LCCN: no98076769 ISNI: 0000 0001 0951 8760 GND: 122259912 BNF: cb13524086c

Persondata
Name	Kalatozov, Mikhail
Alternative names
Short description	Soviet film director
Date of birth	1903
Place of birth
Date of death	1973
Place of death

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