Savva Kulish Explained

Savva Kulish
Birth Date:	17 October 1936
Birth Place:	Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine)
Death Place:	Yaroslavl, Russia
Occupation:	Film director Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1959—2001

Savva Yakovlevich Kulish (Russian: Са́вва Я́ковлевич Кули́ш; 17 October 1936  - 9 June 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.^[1] He directed eight films between 1966 and 1994. His 1979 film Takeoff won the Silver Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.^[2] He was awarded with the People's Artist of Russia in 1995.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Dead Season (1968) — director
• Takeoff (1979) — director
• Fairy tales... fairy tales... fairy tales of the old Arbat (1982) — director, screenwriter
• Fouetté (1986) — screenwriter
• Tragedy, Rock Style (1988) — director, screenwriter
• Stalin's Funeral (1990) — actor

Notes and References

1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 385–386.
2. Web site: 11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) . 17 January 2013 . MIFF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102012/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 . 3 April 2014 .
3. http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1148492 Указ Президента РФ от 19 октября 1995 г. N 1062 «О присвоении почётных званий Российской Федерации»