Sergey Bondarchuk

Directing Sep 25, 1920 Oct 20, 1994 (aged 74) Belozerka, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian SSR

Sergei Bondarchuk (25 September 1920 — 20 October 1994) was a Soviet director, actor, and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1952). Academy Awards winner (War and Peace, 1969). BAFTA winner (Waterloo, 1971). His directorial debut was Fate of a Man, a WWII classic where he portrayed the main role. Bondarchuk is considered a master of big scale pieces with epic battle scenes that involved thousands of extras (War and Peace, Waterloo). He often starred star in his films, as well as cast his family, notably his wife, actor Irina Skobtseva (e.g. War and Peace, Vybor Tseli, Molchanie Doktora Ivensa). In late 1980s-early 1990s Bondarchuk started his long-term passion project – an adaptation of an epic novel “And Quiet Flows the Don,” together with the UK and Italy; however, the work couldn't be finished before the actor-director passed away in 1994. His son, actor-director Fyodor Bondarchuk, finished the piece in 2006.

57 Acting Credits

15 Crew Credits

Sergey Bondarchuk

Acting

War and Peace

Fate of a Man

War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

They Fought for Their Motherland

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

The Battle of Neretva

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

¡Qué Viva México!

Uncle Vanya

Escape by Night

A Summer to Remember

Boris Godunov

The Young Guard

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

Admiral Ushakov

Othello

Attack from the Sea

Story of a Real Man

Quiet Flows The Don

Michurin

Silence of Doctor Ivens

Taras Shevchenko

Unfinished Story

Crew

Waterloo