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Filmmaker · Russia

Mikhail Kalatozov

Died in 1973

Mikhail Kalatozov (1903-1973), born Kalatozishvili in Tiflis, Georgia, worked at the Georgian studio as a cameraman and in 1930 directed a documentary on Svaneti. He then took over the direction of the Tbilisi studio. Winner of a Stalin Prize in 1951, he shot a film in Cuba in 1964 and was named People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1969. He died in Moscow on 26 March 1973 and was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

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