Grigoriy Chukhray Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Grigori Naumovich Chukhrai (Russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й, Ukrainian: Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 29 October 2001) was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter of Jewish (on his father's side) and Ukrainian (on his mother's side) origin. He is the father of director Pavel Chukhrai.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985." Pages 206-209. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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One of the Soviet Cinema Thaw main representatives, Newromanticism member Movement (1954-1962) protected by Nikita Khrushchev in front of Soviet PCUS and statal Cinematographistes Union, was later opposed to the Russian dictator who wanted impose the return to Stalinist Socialist Realism. Accused of "ideological deviationism," overcame this trouble and in 1963, presided over the Cinema Festival from Moscow jury. His masterpiece is autobiographic Ballad of a Soldier (1959), Palma de Oro winner in Cannes Cinema Festival. Father of cameramen Pavel Chukhray, died at 80 in Moscow.