Sergei Yutkevich

Directing

Sergei Yutkevich

Born — Died

1904-08-15 — 1985-04-24

Place of birth

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. Sergei Yutkevich began work as a teen doing puppet shows. Between 1921 and 1923 he studied under Vsevolod Meyerhold. He later helped found the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), which was primarily concerned with circus and music hall acts. He entered films in the 1920s and began directing in 1928. His films often were cheerier than most Russian films as he was influenced by American slapstick, among other things. However he also did serious historical films, docudramas, and biopics. He won Cannes's Best Director Award twice: for Othello in 1956 and for Lenin in Poland in 196…

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg poster
6.4

A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades.

The Great Warrior Skanderbeg

1953

Przhevalsky poster
6.9

A Russian scientist spends a year documenting the natural world in Central Asia.

Przhevalsky

1951

The Man with the Gun poster
5.2

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.

The Man with the Gun

1938

The Humpbacked Horse poster
6.6

Surreal Soviet fantasy movie about a man whose love is kidnapped by the Tsar and he must save her with the help of a humpbacked horse.

The Humpbacked Horse

1941

Sombrero poster
7.0

Shura Tychinking decides to wear sombrero and make everybody to believe he's a different person just arrived from Latin America.

Sombrero

1959

The Bath House poster
7.8

Inventor Chudakov builds a time machine. All that remains is to interest the technical innovation officials and receive authorization to continue the experiment. And it turns out that's the hardest part! The end point in this inventor's struggle will only be set by a "phosphoric woman" arriving from a wonderful future...

The Bath House

1962

The Bath House poster
7.8

Inventor Chudakov builds a time machine. All that remains is to interest the technical innovation officials and receive authorization to continue the experiment. And it turns out that's the hardest part! The end point in this inventor's struggle will only be set by a "phosphoric woman" arriving from a wonderful future...

The Bath House

1962

Yves Montand is Singing poster
NR

The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956.

Yves Montand is Singing

1957

Lace poster
5.9

At the end of the 1920s, young lace factory workers' Komsomol cell faces a conflict between political activists and hooligans, while dealing with an inactive club and bureaucratic apathy.

Lace

1928

Lace poster
5.9

At the end of the 1920s, young lace factory workers' Komsomol cell faces a conflict between political activists and hooligans, while dealing with an inactive club and bureaucratic apathy.

Lace

1928

Lenin in Paris poster
4.4

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.

Lenin in Paris

1981

Lenin in Paris poster
4.4

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.

Lenin in Paris

1981

Othello poster
5.3

Othello, a celebrated Moorish general, secretly marries Desdemona, angering her noble father and inciting the envious Iago’s hatred. Sent to Cyprus, Othello’s victories are overshadowed by Iago’s manipulations: he frames Desdemona as unfaithful with Othello’s lieutenant Cassio. Consumed by jealousy, Othello murders his wife. Discovering Iago’s treachery too late, Othello kills himself as Cyprus learns the bitter truth.

Othello

1955

Othello poster
5.3

Othello, a celebrated Moorish general, secretly marries Desdemona, angering her noble father and inciting the envious Iago’s hatred. Sent to Cyprus, Othello’s victories are overshadowed by Iago’s manipulations: he frames Desdemona as unfaithful with Othello’s lieutenant Cassio. Consumed by jealousy, Othello murders his wife. Discovering Iago’s treachery too late, Othello kills himself as Cyprus learns the bitter truth.

Othello

1955

Stories About Lenin poster
6.8

Two stories ("The feat of the soldier Mukhin", "The Last Autumn"). The events of one concern 1917, when Lenin had to hide in Finland, the second takes place in 1923-1924 during the last months of his life in Gorki.

Stories About Lenin

1957

The New Adventures of Schweik poster
6.6

The New Adventures of Schweik adopted to the WWII reality.

The New Adventures of Schweik

1943

Subject for a Short Story poster
5.9

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizinova from Moscow station to arrive from Moscow. Chekhov is alarmed by the upcoming premiere, excited by the meeting with love, which never took place. Memories of acquaintance with Lika, of the experiences caused by the rude scolding of newspaper men who predicted the young writer the inglorious "death under the fence", about the unexpected decision for everyone to go to Sakhalin...

Subject for a Short Story

1969

The Black Sail poster
7.5

The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.

The Black Sail

1929

Hello, Moscow! poster
6.5

At the amateur talent show the boy, accompanying himself on the accordion, sings a song about Moscow... The plot of the movie is based on the story of the director of the school about how this accordion, once belonging to a cadre worker who died during a demonstration in 1905, has been in many hands before it got to the guys.

Hello, Moscow!

1945

Schweik is Preparing For Battle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schweik is Preparing For Battle

1942

The Girlfriends poster
6.7

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.

The Girlfriends

1936

Revenge poster
7.5

Lev Savvitch Turmanov accidentally heard how his young colleague spoke disparagingly of him, and ignited a thirst for revenge.

Revenge

1960

Lenin in Poland poster
5.5

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.

Lenin in Poland

1966

Lenin in Poland poster
5.5

The life of the great Bolshevik leader before the Russian revolution is chronicled in this bio-pic. Much of the tale centers on his exile in Poland where Lenin becomes friends with two peasants. The little girl has a strong belief in the nationalist cause. Later Lenin hears she was killed for withholding information about him.

Lenin in Poland

1966

We from the Urals poster
6.5

A story about two teenagers and their life during WWII in Urals district of Russia.

We from the Urals

1943

Ankara - Heart of Turkey poster
5.1

A Soviet documentary made for the 10th anniversary of the new Turkish Republic in the year 1934.

Ankara - Heart of Turkey

1934

Ankara - Heart of Turkey poster
5.1

A Soviet documentary made for the 10th anniversary of the new Turkish Republic in the year 1934.

Ankara - Heart of Turkey

1934

The Crash of the Emirate poster
9.5

1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.

The Crash of the Emirate

1955

The Grasshopper poster
5.2

Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.

The Grasshopper

1955

Behind Show Windows poster
6.5

A funny story about a life of a big department store and its employees and customers.

Behind Show Windows

1956

Yakov Sverdlov poster
8.0

Story on the life and work of the first chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov.

Yakov Sverdlov

1940

Liberated France poster
10.0

A Soviet documentary surveying the liberation of France, from D-Day landings and partisan actions to the entry into Paris. Edited at TsSDF from footage shot by French, British, American, Soviet—and captured German—cameramen, it blends frontline combat and city-by-city liberation with portraits of French cultural landmarks and daily life returning after occupation.

Liberated France

1944

Liberated France poster
10.0

A Soviet documentary surveying the liberation of France, from D-Day landings and partisan actions to the entry into Paris. Edited at TsSDF from footage shot by French, British, American, Soviet—and captured German—cameramen, it blends frontline combat and city-by-city liberation with portraits of French cultural landmarks and daily life returning after occupation.

Liberated France

1944

The Youth of Our Parents poster
9.0

A partisan detachment led by Levinson, including Morozka, Pavel Mechik, Metelitsa, and nurse Varya, is united in their goal to defeat the White Cossacks. Despite their shared mission, each carries personal pain and hopes for happiness.

The Youth of Our Parents

1958

Golden Mountains poster
6.3

Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). Deceitful industrialist's son involves naive young man in an attempt to murder Bolshevik leader.

Golden Mountains

1931

Golden Mountains poster
6.3

Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). Deceitful industrialist's son involves naive young man in an attempt to murder Bolshevik leader.

Golden Mountains

1931

March-April poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

March-April

1944

Counterplan poster
5.0

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.

Counterplan

1932

Counterplan poster
5.0

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.

Counterplan

1932

Murder on Dante Street poster
5.5

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

Murder on Dante Street

1956