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Filmmaker · Georgia

Mikhail Kalatozov

Died in 1973

Mikhail Kalatozov, born Mikheil Kalatozishvili in Tiflis in 1903, worked at the Georgian studio as a cameraman and editor, and in 1930 made a documentary on Svaneti that the authorities judged too bleak. His career alternated official commissions and bold strokes: he headed the Mosfilm studio, was sent to Los Angeles as a cultural representative, and was deputy minister of Soviet cinema during the war. He died in Moscow in 1973, at the age of sixty-nine.

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