Ilya Kopalin
Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (1900–1976) was a Russian film director remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gargarin's space flight.
Life[]
He was born the son of a peasant[1] on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow.[2] In his youth he worked in a factory in Moscow. After October 1917 he trained first as a land surveyor then as a pilot. A chance meeting with Dziga Vertov led him instantly into an interest in the cinema. Aged 24 he went to work for Vertov as a camera-man, working on films such as Kinoglaz,[3] but later would work independently. His early films look at country life and agriculture in the newly created USSR.[1]
His work gained him six Stalin Prizes and the Order of Lenin. He died in Moscow on 12 June 1976.[citation needed]
Filmography[]
- Moscow (1927)
- Za Urazhoy (For the Harvest) (1929)
- Fifteen Years of Soviet Cinematography (1933)
- Engineers of the Human Soul (1934) – a documentary recording the First Congress of Soviet Writers
- Abyssinia (c.1935)
- China's Rebuff (c.1937)
- Ma Dunae (On the Danube) (1940) Stalin Prize 1941
- Rout of the German Troops at Moscow (1941)
- Stalin's Speech of November 6, 1942 (1943)
- Moscow Strikes Back (1942) – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Krymskaya Konferentsiya (Crimea Conference) (1945)
- Liberated Czechoslovakia (1945)
- Den Pobedivshey Strany (Victory Day Country) (1948)
- Novaya Albaniya (New Albania) (1949)
- Man Conquers Nature (1950)
- Albaniya (Albania) (1953)
- Velikoe Proshanie (Great Farewell) (1953)
- Za Mir i Druzhbu (For Peace and Friendship) (1954)
- Songs over the Vistula (1955)
- Festival Melody (1955)
- Vrashavskie Vstrechi (Warsaw Meeting) (1956)
- Lulzo Shiqiperi (Lulz Shippers) (1959)
- Gorod Bolshoi Sudby (Destiny of a Great City) (1961)
- Pervi Rejs v Zvezdam (First Flight to the Stars) (1961) – a chronicle of Yuri Gargarin's space flight
- Tocsin of Peace (1963)
- Qunetra Ruins Accused (1974)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Soviet Calendar 1917–1947, Foreign Publishing House, Moscow 1947
- ^ "Ilya Kopalin". IMDb.
- ^ "KINOGLAZ (1924)". BFI.
External links[]
- Ilya Kopalin at IMDb
- Ilya Kopalin at the British Film Institute
- (in Russian) Разгром немецких войск под Москвой (Moscow Strikes Back) (1942) on YouTube – Duration: 1:06:21
- 1900 births
- 1976 deaths
- Soviet documentary film directors
- People from Moscow
- Soviet cinematographers
- Soviet film directors
- Soviet film editors
- Russian film director stubs