Mini-Biography:
Grigorij Kozintsev was born on March 22, 1905 in Kiev, Ukraine. He was a Russian Director, Author, known for Pokhozhdenjia Oktjabrinj (1924), Gamlet (1964), Vyborgskaja Storona (1939), Grigorij Kozintsev's first movie on record is from 1924. Grigorij Kozintsev died on May 11, 1973 in Leningrad. His last motion picture on file dates from 1970.

Biographical Notes
Sowjetischer Filmregisseur, Seit 1919 Theater, 1922 zusammen mit Leonid Trauberg und anderen Gründung des FEKS, im Rahmen dessen er mit Trauberg bis 1930 mehrere Filme realisiert. In den Dreissiger Jahren vor allem durch die Maxim-Trilogie bekannt. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg löste sich das Duo Kozintsev-Trauberg auf, und beide führten für sich allein Regie. Kozintsevs Spätwerk "Hamlet" zählt zu den besten Adaptation des Shakespeare-Stoffes, "King Lear" wurde dann sein letzter Film.
1964 wurde Grigorij Kozintsev als verdienter Künstler der UdSSR geehrt, für "Hamlet" erhielt er 1965 den Lenin-Preis. (lhg 2011)

FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1970: Korol Lir (King Lear) (Director), with Yuri Yarvet, Elsa Radzinya, ,
1964: Gamlet (Director), with Innokentij Smoktunovskij, , Mikhail Nazvanov,
1957: Don Kikhot (Director), with Nikolaj Cherkasov, , Ljudmila Kasjanova,
1951: Bjelinskij (Director), Directed by N Kozheverova, with M Afansev, Vladimir Belokurov, A Borisov,
1947: Pirogov (Director),
1945: Prostije ljudi (Simple People) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with , , ,
1943: Junij Frits (The Young Fritz) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Mikhail Zharov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Astangov,
1942: Bojevoj kinosbornik 'Nashi Djevushki' - Odnazhdi nochju (Director),
1941: Bojevoj kinosbornik 2 (Director: : Sluchaj na telegrafe), Directed by Vladimir Fejnberg, Viktor Ejsymont, Jevgenij Chervjakov, Herbert Rappaport, Lev O. Arnshtam, with , , ,
1941: Bojevoj kinosbornik 1 (Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #1, Fighting Film Collection #1, Victory Will Be Ours, Part 1) (Scenario: : Vstrecha s Maksimom), Directed by Sergej Gerasimov, Ivan Mutanov, Aleksandr Olenin, Jevgenij Nekrasov, with Boris Chirkov, , ,
1941: Velikij Lekar' (unrealized project) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg,
1939: Vyborgskaja Storona (New Horizons, The Vyborg Side) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Zharov,
1937: Vozvrashcheniye Maksima (The Return of Maxim) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Anatoli Kuznetsov,
1935: Junost Maksima (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, ,
1931: Odna (Alone) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Jelena Kuzmina, Pjotr Sobolevskij, Sergej Gerasimov,
1929: Novij Vavilon (New Babylon) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Jelena Kuzmina, Pjotr Sobolevskij, David Gutman,
1927: SVD - Sojus velikogo djela (The Club of the Great Deed) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Sergej Gerasimov, Andrej Kostrichkin, Pjotr Sobolevskij,
1926: Bratishka (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Pjotr Sobolevskij, Janina Zhejmo, Sergeij Martinson,
1926: Shinel (The Overcoat) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Andrej Kostrichkin, , Sergej Gerasimov,
1926: Chertovo koleso (The Devil’s Wheel, The Sailor from the Aurora) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with Pjotr Sobolevskij, Ljudmila Semjonova, Sergej Gerasimov,
1925: Mishka protif Judenicha (Mishki versus Yudenich) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with , Jevgenij Kumejko, Sergej Gerasimov,
1924: Pokhozhdenjia Oktjabrinj (The Adventures of Oktyabrina) (Director), Directed by Leonid Trauberg, with , Jevgenij Kumejko, Sergeij Martinson,
1924: Krasnaja gazeta (Titel not confirmed) (Scenario), Directed by N. N.,

Bibliography
- Sovjetskije khudoshostvennje filmij, Moskau 1961
- Filmlexikon degli autori e delle opere, Vol III, pg 722f
- Kay Weniger, Das grosse Personenlexikon des Films, Vol 4, pg 460f
- Mario Verdone et Barthélemy Amenguai, La FEKS, Premier Plan # 54, Lyon 1970

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