Ilya Kopalin

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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[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Soviet Calendar 1917–1947, Foreign Publishing House, Moscow 1947
  2. ^ "Ilya Kopalin". IMDb.
  3. ^ "KINOGLAZ (1924)". BFI.

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