Sergey Nikolayevich Kolosov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Колосов; 1921 – 2012[1]) was a Soviet film director, writer, and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1988), laureate of the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1976), Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968).[2]

Sergey Kolosov
Kolosov in 2007
Born	(1921-12-27)27 December 1921 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	11 February 2012(2012-02-11) (aged 90) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1952–2006

Biography

Sergey Kolosov was born 27 December 1921 in Moscow.

He was a member of Winter War (1939) and the Great Patriotic War.

From 1948 to 1951, in parallel with his studies in GITIS, he worked as an assistant director in the Russian Army Theatre. From 1952 to 1955, he worked as the director of the Moscow Theater of Satire. In 1955, he went to work in a film studio Mosfilm and debuted in the cinema film Soldier's Heart in 1958.

In 1964, Kolosov as a director took the first Soviet television serial film Call Fire for Ourselves. Main role in the TV series his wife sang People's Artist of the USSR Lyudmila Kasatkina.[3]

At the end of the 1970s, Kolosov became a teacher at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University (Department of Television and Radio Broadcasting).[4]

Kolosov died of a stroke on 11 February 2012 in Moscow. He was buried on 15 February at the Novodevichy Cemetery.[5]

Selected filmography

• 1958 — Soldier's Heart
• 1961 — The Taming of the Shrew
• 1962 — The Cuban Novella
• 1964 — Call the Fire Itself
• 1971 — Sveaborg
• 1974 — Remember Your Name
• 1980 — Appointment
• 1983 — Mother Mary
• 1985 — Anne Firling's Road
• 2002 — Mask and Soul

Bibliography

• Lyudmila Kasatkina, Sergey Kolosov. Fate on Two. Memories in Dialogues (2005)

References

External links

• Sergey Kolosov at IMDb
• Sergey Kolosov at Find a Grave

На других языках

[ru] Колосов, Сергей Николаевич