Yevgeny Andrikanis

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Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis (December 27, 1909 - December 19, 1993) was a Soviet cameraman, director and screenwriter. He was also known as a front-line cameraman during the Great Patriotic War. Andrikanis received the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982 and Lenin Prize in 1978. [1]

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Biography

Andrikanis was born on December 27, 1909, in Paris into a family of Russian immigrants. His father, Nikolay Adamovich Andrikanis, was a lawyer, and his mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna Schmidt, was a relative of Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt. [2] Andrikanis received secondary education in Moscow, where his family moved back to in 1916. Upon graduating from school in 1928, he worked at the Sovkino filming studio  [ ru ] as an assistant to cameraman. Simultaneously, he studied at the cameraman's department of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He graduated from the university in 1932 [3] and spent a year in the Red Army. [4] [5]

Andrikanis began to work at the Mosfilm studio in 1933. He took part in filming Dreamers  [ ru ] (1934), Cosmic Voyage (1936) and The Generation of Winners (1936). His first major work as a cinematographer was Mashenka released n 1942. [4]

In 1942–1944, he worked as a front-line cameraman on the Voronezh Front and Normandy. [5]

Andrikanis became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1968. [6] He was also a member of the USSR Union of Journalists  [ ru ] and USSR Union of Cinematographers  [ ru ]. [7]

Andrikanis died on December 19, 1993. He is buried in the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Personal life

Andrikanis was married twice. His daughter from the first marriage, Tatyana Lavrova, was an actress. [8] He had another daughter from his second marriage with Galina Zakharova  [ ru ]. [5]

Partial filmography

Cinematographer

Director

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  2. ↑ Цветков, Сергей (2022-05-15). Исторический калейдоскоп (in Russian). Litres. ISBN   978-5-04-375916-0.
  3. ↑ Narochitskiy, Aleksey (1980). Москва--энциклопедия (in Russian). p. 107.
  4. 1 2 Юткевич, Сергей (1986). Кино: энциклопедический словарь (in Russian). Советская энциклопедия. p. 24.
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  7. ↑ V pomosch' mestnomy radioveshchaniyu (in Russian). 1974. p. 13.
  8. ↑ "Татьяна Лаврова" . Retrieved 2023-07-23.
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