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Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (Russian: Илья́ Петро́вич Копа́лин; 1900–1976) was a Russian film director remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gargarin's space flight.[1]

Life

He was born the son of a peasant[2] on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow.[3] In his youth he worked in a factory in Moscow. After October 1917 he trained first as a land surveyor then as a pilot. A chance meeting with Dziga Vertov led him instantly into an interest in the cinema. Aged 24 he went to work for Vertov as a camera-man, working on films such as Kinoglaz,[4] but later would work independently. His early films look at country life and agriculture in the newly created USSR.[2]

His work gained him six Stalin Prizes and the Order of Lenin. He died in Moscow on 12 June 1976.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• Moscow (1927)
• Za Urazhoy (For the Harvest) (1929)
• Fifteen Years of Soviet Cinematography (1933)
• Engineers of the Human Soul (1934) – a documentary recording the First Congress of Soviet Writers
• Abyssinia (c.1935)
• China's Rebuff (c.1937)
• Ma Dunae (On the Danube) (1940) Stalin Prize 1941
• Rout of the German Troops at Moscow (1941)
• Stalin's Speech of November 6, 1942 (1943)
• Moscow Strikes Back (1942) – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
• Krymskaya Konferentsiya (Crimea Conference) (1945)
• Liberated Czechoslovakia (1945)
• Den Pobedivshey Strany (Victory Day Country) (1948)
• Novaya Albaniya (New Albania) (1949)
• Man Conquers Nature (1950)
• Albaniya (Albania) (1953)
• Velikoe Proshanie (Great Farewell) (1953)
• Za Mir i Druzhbu (For Peace and Friendship) (1954)
• Songs over the Vistula (1955)
• Festival Melody (1955)
• Vrashavskie Vstrechi (Warsaw Meeting) (1956)
• Lulzo Shiqiperi (Lulz Shippers) (1959)
• Gorod Bolshoi Sudby (Destiny of a Great City) (1961)
• Pervi Rejs v Zvezdam (First Flight to the Stars) (1961) – a chronicle of Yuri Gargarin's space flight
• Tocsin of Peace (1963)
• Qunetra Ruins Accused (1974)

References

External links

• Ilya Kopalin at IMDb
• Ilya Kopalin at the British Film Institute
• (in Russian) Разгром немецких войск под Москвой (Moscow Strikes Back) (1942) on YouTube – Duration: 1:06:21

На других языках

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[ru] Копалин, Илья Петрович

Илья́ Петро́вич Копа́лин (20 июля [2 августа] 1900, Павловское, Московская губерния — 12 июня 1976, Москва) — советский кинорежиссёр-документалист, сценарист, педагог, начальник фронтовой киногруппы в годы Великой Отечественной войны. Народный артист СССР (1968), лауреат шести Сталинских премий (1941, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951).

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