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Moscow (AFP)
The famous filmmaker of the Soviet era Marlen Khutsiev, one of the most influential filmmakers in the country after the war, died at the age of 93, announced Tuesday the Union of cinematographs from Russia.
"He led a life filled with drama and joy," spokeswoman Tatiana Nemchinskaya told AFP.
The director's career lasted more than six decades and he worked in his 90s.
President Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences on the death of the "distinguished" director, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Born in Georgia, Khutsiev was famous for his cult films in the mid-1950s and 1960s that reflected the atmosphere of Soviet society during Nikita Khrushchev's thaw.
His works include "Spring on Zarechnaya Street" (1956) and "I am Twenty", known in the West as "Ilich & # 39; Gate" (1965).
"He created a revolution in the 1960s and became a symbol of our thawing," Pavel Lungin, renowned filmmaker, told AFP.
Lungin said that "The door of Ilych", which described the life of ordinary Soviets and starred filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in a cameo, was a "manifesto" of the time.
The film provoked Khrushchev's anger and was heavily censored. The cut of the original director was only created in 1988, during Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika.
During his career, Khutsiev has won the admiration of Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and other big names in cinema.
But at home "he was walking in a precarious line," said the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which presented the first major North American retrospective of his work in 2016.
Russian cinema critic Andrei Plakhov likened Khutsiev to Michelangelo Antonioni, the famous Italian director.
Eldar Shengelaia, a Georgian director of the Soviet era and a friend of Khutsiev, said his works were clbadics of world cinema.
"It has left an indelible mark in everyone's life," said AFP, at the age of 86.
Khutsiev has received numerous awards and international awards at film festivals such as Venice and Berlin.
He was born on October 4, 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia, then known as Tiflis, and studied at the Moscow-based Film Institute Gerasimov, the most well-known film school in Moscow. Russia.
? AFP 2019
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