{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Aleksandr Zarkhi | image = Aleksandr Zarkhi.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi | birth_date = {{Birth date|1908|2|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|1|27|1908|2|18|df=yes}} | death_place = Moscow, Russia | other_names = | occupation = Film director, screenwriter | years_active = 1928–1986 }}
'''Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi''' ({{langx|ru|Александр Григорьевич Зархи}}; 18 February 1908 – 27 January 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Hero of Socialist Labour (1978).<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=752–753}}</ref>
His film ''Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky'' was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981.<ref name="berlinale">{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1981/03_preistr_ger_1981/03_Preistraeger_1981.html |title=Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners |accessdate=29 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''The Song of Metal (Песнь о металле)'' (1928); documentary * ''Wind in the Face (Ветер в лицо)'' (1930); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''Noon (Полдень)'' (1931); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''My Motherland (Моя Родина)'' (1933); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''Hectic Days (Горячие денечки)'' (1935); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''Baltic Deputy (Депутат Балтики)'' (1937); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''Member of the Government (Член правительства)'' (1940); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (Его зовут Сухэ-Батор)'' (1942); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''The Last Hill (Малахов курган)''(1944); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''In the Name of Life (Во имя жизни)'' (1946); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''The Precious Seed (Драгоценные зерна)'' (1948); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''The Fires of Baku (Огни Баку)'' (1950); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits and Rza Tahmasib * ''Kolkhoz Rassvet (Колхоз "Рассвет")'' (1951); documentary * ''Pavlinka (Павлинка)'' (1952); TV play * ''Nesterka (Нестерка)'' (1954) * ''The Height (Высота)'' (1957) * ''People on the Bridge (Люди на мосту)'' (1960) * ''My Younger Brother (Мой младший брат)'' (1962) * ''Hello, Life!'' (1963) * ''Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина)'' (1967) * ''Towns and Years (Города и годы)'' (1973) * ''Story of an Unknown Actor (Повесть о неизвестном актере)'' (1976) * ''Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (Двадцать шесть дней из жизни Достоевского)'' (1981) * ''Chicherin (Чичерин)'' (1986)
==Awards and honours== * Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1940) * Two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946) *People's Artist of the RSFSR (1965) *People's Artist of the USSR (1969) *Hero of Socialist Labour (1978) *Order of Lenin (1978) *Order of the October Revolution (1986)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|953516}}
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