Leonid Lukov Explained

Leonid Lukov
Birthname:	Leonid Davydovich Lukov
Birth Date:	1909 5, df=yes
Birth Place:	Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Death Place:	Leningrad, Russian, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Occupation:	Film director Screenwriter

Leonid Davydovich Lukov (Russian: Леонид Давидович Луков; 2 May 1909  - 24 April 1963) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.^[1] He directed 25 films between 1930 and 1963. Leonid Lukov was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1957 and awarded the Stalin Prize twice: in 1941 and 1952.^[2] He died in Leningrad.^[3]

Filmography

• Scum (Накипь); 1930, short
• Komsomol is my Motherland (Родина моя — комсомол); 1931, documentary
• Roots of Commune (Корешки коммуны); 1931
• Italian (Итальянка); 1931
• Eshelon No... (Эшелон №...); 1932
• Youth (Молодость); 1934
• I Love (Я люблю); 1936
• Director (Директор); 1938
• A Great Life, Part 1 (Большая жизнь, 1 серия); 1939
• Nother (Мать); 1941, short
• Alexander Parkhomenko (Александр Пархоменко); 1942
• Two Soldiers (Два бойца); 1943
• It Happened in the Donbass (Это было в Донбассе); 1945
• A Great Life, Part 2 (Большая жизнь, 2 серия); 1946
• Private Aleksandr Matrosov (Рядовой Александр Матросов); 1947
• Miners of the Don (Донецкие шахтеры); 1950
• Vassa Zheleznova (Васса Железнова); 1953
• Barbarians (Варвары); 1953
• Least We Forget (Об этом забывать нельзя); 1954
• To a New Shore (К новому берегу); 1955
• Different Fortunes (Разные судьбы); 1956
• Aleksa Dundić (Олеко Дундич); 1958
• Two Lives (Две жизни); 1961
• Trust me, People (Верьте мне, люди); 1964

Notes and References

1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 418-420.
2. Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // ed. Sergei Yutkevich. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987, p. 243
3. Book: Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov. Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1973. Macmillan. 174.