
Gleb Panfilov
Biography
Gleb Anatolyevich Panfilov (Russian: Глеб Анатольевич Панфилов; 21 May 1934 – 26 August 2023; Magnitogorsk) was a Soviet and Russian film director noted for a string of mostly historical films starring his wife, Inna Churikova. His first film "No Path Through Fire" won the Golden Leopard at the 22nd Locarno International Film Festival (1969). He also won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival (1987) for the film "The Theme".
In the 1980s Panfilov, a chemist by profession, moved to theatre directing, but also found time to adapt for the screen Alexander Vampilov's play Valentina (1981), as well as Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova (1983) and Mother (1989). Vassa won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival and Russia's State Prize. He won the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for the film The Theme. Despite the hardships of the 1990s Panfilov was committed to directing The Romanovs: An Imperial Family, an epic story of the Romanov sainthood. The film, finally released in 2000, was a sort of family project involving his wife as well as children. It was also his first movie that did not feature his wife in a leading role. In 2000 at the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival Panfilov was awarded an Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema. In January 2006 RTR TV aired Panfilov's miniseries based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle. The Nobel Prize-winning author helped adapt the novel for the screen and narrated the film. Gleb Panfilov died on 26 August 2023, at the age of 89.
Acting (1 movie)
Directing (23 movies)

No Path Through Fire
1967

The Beginning
1970

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family
2000

Vassa
1983

The Theme
1979
People's Police
1958
Regain Our Ranks!
1959
Nina Melovizinova
1962
Not Killed in the War
1962
Case at the Station Krechetovka
1964
On the Set of «Andrey Rublev»
1967

Aquitaine Lioness
2013

Lie for Salvation
2015

Hamlet
1989

I Wish to Speak
1976
Nylon Jacket
1958

Valentina
1980

Mother
1990

The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964

Keep Forever
2007

Audience
2019

100 Minutes
2021

Guilty Without Guilt
2008
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Regain Our Ranks! | 1959 | Writer |
| Not Killed in the War | 1962 | Screenplay |
| Nina Melovizinova | 1962 | Writer |
| Case at the Station Krechetovka | 1964 | Screenplay |
| The Kurt Clausewitz Case | 1964 | Writer |
| No Path Through Fire | 1967 | Writer |
| The Beginning | 1970 | Writer |
| I Wish to Speak | 1976 | Writer |
| Stepan's Remembrance | 1977 | Writer |
| The Man Who Was Lucky | 1978 | Screenplay |
| The Theme | 1979 | Writer |
| Meeting | 1980 | Writer |
| Valentina | 1980 | Writer |
| Vassa | 1983 | Writer |
| Mother | 1990 | Writer |
| The Romanovs: A Crowned Family | 2000 | Writer |
| Keep Forever | 2007 | Screenplay |
| Guilty Without Guilt | 2008 | Writer |
| Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus | 2010 | Writer |
| Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel | 2011 | Writer |
| 100 Minutes | 2021 | Screenplay |
