Savva Kulish

{{short description|Soviet film director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = Savva Kulish.jpg | name = Savva Kulish | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|10|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine) | death_date = {{death date and age|2001|6|9|1936|10|17|df=yes}} | death_place = Yaroslavl, Russia | occupation = Film director<br>Screenwriter | years_active = 1959—2001 }} '''Savva Yakovlevich Kulish''' ({{langx|ru|Са́вва Я́ковлевич Кули́ш}}; 17 October 1936 – 9 June 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.<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=385–386}}</ref> He directed eight films between 1966 and 1994. His 1979 film ''Takeoff'' won the Silver Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.<ref name="Moscow1979">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |title=11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) |accessdate=17 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102012/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |archivedate=3 April 2014 }}</ref> He was awarded with the People's Artist of Russia in 1995.<ref name="1062-1995">[http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1148492 Указ Президента РФ от 19 октября 1995 г. N 1062 «О присвоении почётных званий Российской Федерации»] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426202238/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1148492 |date=26 April 2013 }}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Dead Season'' (1968) — director * ''Takeoff'' (1979) — director * ''Fairy tales... fairy tales... fairy tales of the old Arbat'' (1982) — director, screenwriter * ''Fouetté'' (1986) — screenwriter * ''Tragedy, Rock Style'' (1988) — director, screenwriter * ''Stalin's Funeral'' (1990) — actor

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0474586|Savva Kulish}}

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