Known For
Directing
Known Credits
14
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 4, 1925 (100 years old)
Place of Birth
Tiflis, Georgian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (Russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include I Am Twenty and July Rain. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986.
Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), graduating in 1952. He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958, and worked full-time as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward.
Khutsiev's first feature film, Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top box-office draws of the 1950s. Three years later, Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin "as a new kind of popular hero" by starring him in Two Fyodors. His two masterpieces of the 1960s, however, were panned by the authorities, forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence. In 1978, Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK.)
His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.
| 2013 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded...Director | |
| 2001 | People of 1941...Director | |
| 1993 | Infinity...Director | |
| 1983 | Postscript...Director | |
| 1974 | And Still I Believe...Director | |
| 1971 | The Scarlet Sail of Paris...Director | |
| 1970 | It Was In May...Director | |
| 1967 | July Rain...Director | |
| 1965 | I Am Twenty...Director | |
| 1958 | The Two Fedors...Director | |
| 1956 | Spring on Zarechnaya Street...Director | |
| 1955 | Lyana...Assistant Director |
| 2013 | Venice 70: Future Reloaded...Writer | |
| 2001 | People of 1941...Writer | |
| 1993 | Infinity...Screenplay | |
| 1985 | Dzhura - Hunter from Min-Arkhar...Screenplay | |
| 1983 | Postscript...Writer | |
| 1971 | The Scarlet Sail of Paris...Author | |
| 1967 | July Rain...Writer | |
| 1965 | I Am Twenty...Writer | |
| 1958 | Youth Street...Writer |
| 1985 | Dzhura - Hunter from Min-Arkhar...Creator |
| 1979 | Allegro with Fire...Producer |
| 1967 | Strong with Spirit...Supervising Art Director |
| 2023 | The Cinema Language of an Era: Marlen Khutsievas Self | |
| 2020 | A Georgian Toastas Self | |
| 2019 | The Giftas Self | |
| 2019 | Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a Godas Self | |
| 2018 | Into_nation of Big Odesaas Himself / Narrator | |
| 2017 | Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territoriesas Self | |
| 2015 | Khutsiev. Action Starts!as | |
| 2012 | Alexander Belyavsky. Fox's Personal Fileas Self - Режиссер | |
| 2001 | People of 1941as Narrator (voice) | |
| 1993 | To Rememberas Narrator | |
| 1979 | VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Professionas | |
| 1978 | On the Day of the Holidayas Ramzes | |
| 1969 | Shine, Shine, My Staras Third 'cuckoo' player (prince) | |
| 1968 | Interventionas Главнокомандующий |