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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (; Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
, – Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, 11 May 1973) was a Soviet Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n theatre and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. He was named People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR

The People's Artist of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an Title of honor granted to citizens of the Soviet Union....
 in 1964.

He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts in 1757....
. As a theatre director he was part of Eccentricism, a modernist
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 avant garde movement
Cultural movement

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies....
 that spanned Russian futurism
Russian Futurism

Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Marinetti's manifesto. Russian futurism may be said to have been born in December 1912, when the Moscow-based group Hylaea issued a manifesto entitled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste....
 and constructivism
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
, which included the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold was a Russian theatre director, actor and Theatrical producer whose provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre....
 and Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet Union Russian people film director and Film theory noted in particular for his silent films Strike , The Battleship Potemkin and October: Ten Days That Shook the World, as well as Historical movie Epic film Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible ....
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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (; Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
, – Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
, 11 May 1973) was a Soviet Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n theatre and film director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
. He was named People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR

The People's Artist of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an Title of honor granted to citizens of the Soviet Union....
 in 1964.

He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts in 1757....
. As a theatre director he was part of Eccentricism, a modernist
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 avant garde movement
Cultural movement

A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the sciences, and philosophies....
 that spanned Russian futurism
Russian Futurism

Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Marinetti's manifesto. Russian futurism may be said to have been born in December 1912, when the Moscow-based group Hylaea issued a manifesto entitled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste....
 and constructivism
Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architecture movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" in favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes....
, which included the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold
Vsevolod Meyerhold

Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold was a Russian theatre director, actor and Theatrical producer whose provocative experiments dealing with physical being and symbolism in an unconventional theatre setting made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre....
 and Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet Union Russian people film director and Film theory noted in particular for his silent films Strike , The Battleship Potemkin and October: Ten Days That Shook the World, as well as Historical movie Epic film Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible ....
. Kozintsev contributed the "Salvation in the Trousers" section to the Eccentric Manifesto, published on 9 July 1922 (the other contributors were Leonid Trauberg, Sergei Yutkevich and Georgii Kryzhitskii) and was involved with the Factory of the Eccentric Actor group. Some of his early films were launched under the FEKS label.

He began making films in 1921. His silent features, including The Overcoat
The Overcoat

"The Overcoat" is the title of a short story by Ukraine-born Russian literature author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, thus spawning Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous quote: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story has been adapted into a variety of stage and fi...
 (1926) and New Babylon (1929), had a ring of Expressionism
Expressionism

Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, theatre, film, Expressionist architecture and Expressionism ....
, while the early sound film Odna
Odna

Odna is a Soviet Union film released in . It was written and directed by Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev. It was originally planned as a silent film, but it was eventually released with a soundtrack comprising sound effects, some dialogue and a full orchestral score by Dmitri Shostakovich....
 (1931) used experimental montage sound techniques. Kozintsev is most renowned by his adaptations of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
 (King Lear
King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606, and is considered one of his greatest works....
 and Hamlet
Hamlet (1964 film)

Hamlet is a film adaptation in Russian of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet....
) and Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel by many, is a classic of Western literature and is regularly regarded among the best novels ever written....
' Don Quixote
Don Quixote (1957 film)

Don Quixote is a 1957 in film cinema of the Soviet Union drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev. It is based on the novel of the Don Quixote....
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