Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Directed by Mosfilm. People's Artist of Russia, winner of the USSR State Prize.
Biography
Georgy Natanson was born on May 23, 1921 in Kazan. His mother was a singer, his father, Grigory Nathanson, was an economist and was killed in the army in 1941 at Yelnya. Since 1941 to 1943 he worked as an assistant director of the Central United Film Studio in Alma-Ata, which was also evacuated in a film studio Mosfilm the Great Patriotic War. In 1944 he graduated from the VGIK in the studio of Lev Kuleshov and Anna Khokhlova. Diploma work - The Storm for the film's story by O. Henry. His career began at the studio Mosfilm in 1941 as an assistant director and later the second director of such classics of Russian cinema as Ivan Pyryev, Alexander Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Ptushko, Boris Barnet, Andrey Tarkovsky. In 1956, seeing the spectacle An Unusual Concert, Georgy Natanson already as auteur-director puts together with the Sergey Obraztsov satirical film Heavenly Creatures, marked by the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival in Venice. The following year, appears the film White Acacia based on the eponymous operetta of Isaak Dunayevsky. In 1960, screens out a shot with Anatoly Efros film Noisy Day on the play by Viktor Rozov, Finding Joy. In subsequent years, one after another out films All remains to people, The Chamber. Screening Older Sister based on the play by Alexander Volodin won universal acceptance. This picture enjoyed the greatest success, and in the USSR Tatyana Doronina has been recognized as the best actress, of the year for a decade of Soviet films in Rome and Milan. Next Natanson removes Once Again About Love , prize at the InternationalFilm Festival in Cartagena, The Ambassador of the Soviet Union , For all responsible , Re-Wedding , They were the actors , Elena Obraztsova Sings , Valentin and Valentina the play by Mikhail Roshchin, Aelita, do not bother to men based on the play by Edvard Radzinsky, Frenzied Bus. In the 1970s, he often worked as a theater director. Natanson was also often invited to participate in the work of the juries of many domestic festivals and creative meetings.
Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class - For outstanding contribution to the development of national cinema and many years of creative work
Order of Honour - For many years of fruitful work in the field of culture and art, a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples
