Yuri Markovich Nagibin (russian: Ю́рий Ма́ркович Наги́бин; 3 April 1920 – 17 June 1994) was a Russian
Soviet
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writer, screenwriter and novelist.
Biography
Yuri Nagibin was born in Moscow in 1920. Nagibin's mother Ksenia Nagibina was pregnant with him when his father — Kirill Nagibin, a
Russian nobleman — was executed as a counter-revolutionary before he was born. He was raised by his Jewish stepfather Mark Leventhal who was also later arrested and sent into internal exile to the Russian North in
Komi Republic
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in 1927. Nagibin was unaware of his real father, so he assumed he was partly Jewish (Nagibin's mother was of Russian ethnicity). He found out late in life that both of his parents were in fact Russian, but he consciously related himself to Jews and condemned
antisemitism
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Antis ...
, having suffered many antisemitic incidents in his early life.
In 1938 he entered the
Moscow State Medical University, but left it for
VGIK
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning
''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...
. He wrote his first story in 1940 and soon became a member of the
Union of Soviet Writers
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.
World War II
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terminated his education. In 1942 he joined the Red Army as a
political commissar. ''«My knowledge of German language determined my war specialty. I was sent to the 7th department of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army — which meant
counterpropaganda. I served as a counterpropagandist and political instructor, my rank equaled to that of a lieutenant. First the
Volkhov Front
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, the
Leningrad Front
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The Karelian Front ...
, then I was sent to the
Voronezh Front
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».''
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documentary by Russia-K
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, 2010 After a serious contusion he returned to the front as a war correspondent. In 1943 he published his first collection of stories.
Nagibin was one of the most prolific Soviet
screenplay
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Background
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writers, but he also wrote several novels and novellas, as well as many short stories and newspaper articles. Among the topics he explored was the
Great Patriotic War
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, the life of simple people after the war, his childhood memories, village prose, ecological themes and Russian history. He traveled a lot — both inside and outside of the USSR, which also influenced his writings. One of his screenplays was ''The Red Tent'', based on the history of
Umberto Nobile
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Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships in the years between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembe ...
's expedition to the North Pole, which was heavily rewritten during the filming process of the
film of the same name.
He also co-wrote the screenplay for the Soviet-Japanese movie ''
Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (russian: Дерсу Узала; 1849–1908) was a Nanai trapper and hunter. He worked as a guide for Vladimir Arsenyev who immortalized him in his 1923 book '' Dersu Uzala''. The book was adapted into two feature films, with the ve ...
'' directed by
Akira Kurosawa
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which received an
Oscar
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* Oscar (Irish mythology), ...
for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
*See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...
in 1976.
In October 1993, he signed the
Letter of Forty-Two The Letter of Forty-Two (russian: Письмо́ сорока́ двух) was an open letter signed by forty-two Russian Intellectual, literati, aimed at Russian society, the president and government, in reaction to the 1993 Russian constitutional c ...
.
Nagibin was married six times, yet he left no children. Among his wives was Valentina Likhachova — daughter of
Ivan Likhachov
Ivan Alekseevich Likhachev (June 15, 1896 - June 24, 1956) - Soviet statesman, one of the organizers of the Soviet automobile industry. He is known as the director of the Moscow 1st State Automobile Plant (now the I.A.Likhachev Plant). Member of ...
— and acclaimed Soviet poet
Bella Akhmadulina
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. His last wife, Alla Nagibina, remembered: ''«We met at the party. He was married, and so was I... Moscow didn't welcome me. Nobody could be beside him after Bella. Bella was incredibly talented and beautiful, the star of her time. Nagibin also wasn't an ordinary boy. He was rich as
Croesus
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Croesus was ...
and beautiful as
Alain Delon
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»''.
Nevertheless, they lived together for 25 years, up till Nagibin's death.
He died in
Moscow
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on 17 June 1994 and was buried at
Novodevichy Cemetery
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.
Screenplays
*''
Guests from Kuban'' (1955)
*''
The Night Guest
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Cast
* Jiří Vala as Innkeeper Emil Kalous
* Martin Růžek as Alois Remunda
* Rudolf Hrušínský as Wa ...
'' (1958)
*''
Hard Happiness'' (1958)
*''
Unpaid Debt'' (1959)
*''
The Komarov Brothers'' (1961)
*''
The Slowest Train
''The Slowest Train'' (russian: Самый медленный поезд) is a 1963 Soviet drama film directed by :ru:Краснопольский, Владимир Аркадьевич, Vladimir Krasnopolskiy and :ru:Усков, Валерий И ...
'' (1963)
*''
The Girl and the Echo
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'' (1964)
*''
The Chairman'' (1964)
*''
Clean Ponds
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'' (1965)
*''
Chase
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Businesses
* Chase Bank, a national bank based in New York City, New York
* Chase Aircraft (1943–1954), a defunct American aircraft manufacturing company
* Chase Coaches, a defunct bus operator in England
* Chase Co ...
'' (1965)
*''
The Kingdom of Women '' (1967)
*''
The Red Tent'' (1969) (original screenplay)
*''
Wait for Me, Anna'' (1969)
*''
Blue Ice'' (1969)
*''
Director
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* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
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* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
'' (1969)
*''
Tchaikovsky
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'' (1969)
*''
Dersu Uzala
Dersu Uzala (russian: Дерсу Узала; 1849–1908) was a Nanai trapper and hunter. He worked as a guide for Vladimir Arsenyev who immortalized him in his 1923 book '' Dersu Uzala''. The book was adapted into two feature films, with the ve ...
'' (1975)
*''
The Ivanov Family
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'' (1975)
*''
Jaroslaw Dabrowski'' (1975)
*''
The Beginning of the Legend'' (1976)
*''
Late Meeting Late Meeting (russian: Поздняя встреча, Pozdnyaya vstrecha) is a 1979 romantic drama television film based on the novel ''Urgently Required Gray human hair'' by Yuri Nagibin.
Plot
The film takes place in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk, ...
'' (1978)
*''
A Painter's Wife Portrait
''A Painter's Wife Portrait'' (russian: Портрет жены художника, Portret zheny khudozhnika) is a 1981 Soviet romance film directed by Aleksandr Pankratov.
Plot
The film tells about a family who goes to rest in a boarding hous ...
'' (1982) (story)
*''
Rest Time from Saturday Until Monday'' (1984) (story)
*''
Kalman's Mystery'' (1984)
*''
Bambi's Childhood
''Bambi's Childhood'' (russian: Детство Бемби) is a 1985 Soviet family film directed by Natalya Bondarchuk.
Plot
The film tells about a deer named Bambi, who, from birth, learns to understand the mysterious forest world. Life seems b ...
'' (1985)
*''
Bambi's Youth'' (1986)
*''
Above All Else'' (1987)
*''
Gardemarines ahead!'' (1988)
*''
Viva gardemarines!
Viva may refer to:
Companies and organisations
* Viva (network operator), a Dominican mobile network operator
* Viva Air, a Spanish airline taken over by flag carrier Iberia
* Viva Air Dominicana
* VIVA Bahrain, a telecommunication company
* Vi ...
'' (1991)
*''
Naval Cadets III'' (1992)
*''
Il quarto re'' (1997) (original screenplay)
English translations
*''Newlywed'', from ''Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories'', FLPH, Moscow, 1959
from Archive.org*''Island of Love'', Progress Publishers, 1977.
*''The Peak of Success and Other Stories, Ardis, 1986.
*''Arise and Walk'', Faber and Faber, 1991.
References
External links
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Russian male short story writers
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Male screenwriters
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Soviet male writers
20th-century Russian male writers
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Writers from Moscow
1920 births
1994 deaths
20th-century screenwriters