
Marlen Khutsiyev
Biography
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.
Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward.
Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by the authorities, forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence. In 1978, Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK.)
His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
Acting (12 movies)

Intervention
1987

Shine, Shine, My Star
1969

People of 1941
2001

A Georgian Toast
2020

Khutsiev. Action Starts!
2015

Cinematic Language of the Era: Marlen Khutsiev
2023

The Gift
2019

Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories
2017

On the Day of the Holiday
1978

Into_nation of Big Odesa
2018

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979

Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God
2019
Directing (12 movies)

People of 1941
2001

July Rain
1967

I Am Twenty
1965

It Was In May
1970

Spring on Zarechnaya Street
1956

Postscript
1983

Infinity
1993

The Two Fedors
1958

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013

The Scarlet Sail of Paris
1971

And Still I Believe
1974

In perpetuum infinitum
2013
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| I Am Twenty | 1965 | Writer | 
| July Rain | 1967 | Writer | 
| Postscript | 1983 | Writer | 
| Infinity | 1993 | Screenplay | 
| People of 1941 | 2001 | Writer | 
| Venice 70: Future Reloaded | 2013 | Writer |