{{Short description|Soviet film director}} {{expand Russian|topic=bio|date=April 2015}} '''Ilya Abramovich Frez''' ({{langx|ru|Илья Абрамович Фрэз}}; 20 August 1909 – 22 June 1994), PAU, was a Soviet film director primarily known for his films for younger viewers.<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=229–231}}</ref> Among his films was the internationally popular ''I Loved You'' of 1967.<ref>Mira Liehm, Antonín J. Liehm ''The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945'' 1977 Page 324 "Among the more interesting films made for young viewers were the internationally popular I Loved You (Ya vas lyubil-1967) by Ilya Frez (b. 1909)"</ref><ref>Soviet Film - Volumes 212-223 1975 - Page 28 ILIA FREZ, film director</ref><ref>David Gillespie, Russian Cinema 2014 Page 89 The fraught nature of male—female relationships is treated with more than a hint of irony by Ilia Frez in his 1985 film The ...</ref><ref>Film Culture - Issues 63-69 - Page 147 Ilia Frez and Russian Children's Films, by Steven</ref>
==Selected filmography== *''First-Year Student'' (1948) *''Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades'' (1955) *''Trubachyov's Detachment Is Fighting'' (1957) *''I Loved You'' (1967) *''Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase'' (1970) *''Crank from 5th B'' (1970) *''We Didn't Learn This'' (1975) *''Could One Imagine?'' (1981) *''Quarantine'' (1983) *''Personal file of Judge Ivanova'' (1985)
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