The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in

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History

The institute was founded in 1919 by the film director

Vladimir Gardin Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who ...

as the Moscow Film School and is the oldest film school in the world. From 1934 to 1991 the film school was known as the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский (ранее Всесоюзный) государственный институт кинематографии). Film directors who have taught at the institute include Lev Kuleshov, Marlen Khutsiev,

Aleksey Batalov Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...

Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, scree ...

, Mikhail Romm and

Vsevolod Pudovkin Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin ( rus, Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин, p=ˈfsʲevələt ɪlərʲɪˈonəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈdofkʲɪn; 16 February 1893 – 30 June 1953) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwrite ...

. Alumni include Sergei Bondarchuk, Elem Klimov,

Sergei Parajanov Sergei Parajanov, ka, სერგო ფარაჯანოვი, uk, Сергій Параджанов (January 9, 1924 – July 20, 1990) was an Armenian filmmaker. Parajanov is regarded by film critics, film historians and filmmakers t ...

Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (russian: link=no, Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, ''Russian Ark'' (2002), filmed in a s ...

and

Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greates ...

. Since 1986, the school has been named after the film director and actor Sergei Gerasimov. A full member of the international

CILECT The International Association of Film and Television Schools (French: ''Centre international de liaison des écoles de cinéma et de télévision'', CILECT) is the association of the world's major film and television schools.Tengiz Abuladze Tengiz Abuladze ( ka, თენგიზ აბულაძე; 31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors. ...

Sitora Alieva Sitora Shokhinovna Alieva (russian: Ситора Шохиновна Алиева) – film expert, director of the IFF “Faces of love” and the IIF Sochi, artistic director of the largest Russian national film festival “Kinotavr”, official ...

Dhimitër Anagnosti Dhimitër Anagnosti (born 23 January 1936) is an Albanian film director of the 20th century. He was a member of the Parliament of Albania in the 1990s and a Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports. For his contribution in film, he received the Peo ...

Natalya Andrejchenko Natalya Eduardovna Andreychenko (russian: link=no, Ната́лья Эдуа́рдовна Андре́йченко; born May 3, 1956) is a Russian actress. Her most famous roles include the title character in ''Mary Poppins, Goodbye'' and Lyuba ...

Anders Banke Anders Banke (born 2 August 1969) is a Swedish director. He was born and raised in Ystad and developed an early interest in film. He was trained as a director at VGIK in Moscow and learned to speak Russian. There he met his friend and future colla ...

Siddiq Barmak Siddiq Barmak ( fa, صدیق برمک, born September 7, 1962) is an Afghan film director and producer. In 2004, Barmak won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for his first feature film, '' Osama''. He received an M.A. degree in cin ...

Aimée Beekman Aimée Beekman ( Malla; born 20 April 1933) is an Estonian writer noted in her country for several books said to present realistic depictions of modern life. Amongst her works is ''Valikuvõimalus'' or ''An Opportunity for Choice'', which involves ...

Vladimir Beekman Vladimir Beekman (23 August 1929 – 3 October 2009) was an Estonian writer, poet and translator. Early life and education After completing his primary education, he attended the Tallinn University of Technology and graduated in 1953 with a degr ...

* Sergei Bondarchuk *

Lucian Bratu Lucian Bratu (14 July 1924 – 9 May 1998) was a Romanian Jewish film director. Bratu directed ten films between 1960 and 1985. Filmography *'' Secretul cifrului'' (1959) *'' Tudor'' (1962) *'' Sărutul'' (1965) *'' Un film cu o fată fermecă ...

Valentin Chernykh Valentin Konstantinovich Chernykh (russian: Валенти́н Константи́нович Черны́х; 12 March 1935 – 6 August 2012) was a Soviet and Russian screenwriter, playwright and director. He wrote for more than 35 films b ...

* Sofiko Chiaureli * Revaz Chkheidze *

Grigory Chukhray Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; uk, Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. ...

Yuri Chulyukin Yuri Stepanovich Chulyukin (russian: Юрий Степанович Чулюкин; 9 November 1929 — 7 March 1987) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor and songwriter best known for comedy movies. He became a People's Artist of the RS ...

* Souleymane Cissé * Frank Daniel *

Georgi Djulgerov Georgi Djulgerov ( bg, Георги Дюлгеров) is a Bulgarian film director, screenwriter, producer and professor at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. Career Djulgerov was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, on 30 September 1943. Aft ...

Maciej Drygas Maciej Drygas (born 1956 in Łódź) is a Polish documentary filmmaker. Career Following graduation from the Directing Department of the Moscow All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), also known as the Gerasimov Institute of Cine ...

Dimitri Devyatkin Dimitri Devyatkin (born July 31, 1949) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, video artist, and journalist. Devyatkin uses elements of humor, art and new technology in his work. He is known as one of the first video makers to combine ...

Nikolai Ekk Nikolai Vladimirovich Ekk (russian: Николай Владимирович Экк; 14 June 1902 – 14 July 1976) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. "Ekk" was in fact a pseudonym; his real surname was Ivakin (russian: ...

Natalya Fateyeva Natalya Nikolayevna Fateyeva (russian: Наталья Николаевна Фатеева; born 23 December 1934) is a Soviet and Russian film actress and television presenter. She has appeared in more than fifty films since 1956. People's Artist ...

Yan Frid Yan Borisovich Frid (russian: Ян Борисович Фрид; 1908–2003) was a Soviet screenwriter and film director. Life and career Yan Borisovich Frid was born on May 31 in 1908 in Krasnoyarsk. In 1932 he graduated from the directing depar ...

* Aleksandr Fyodorov * Leonid Gaidai *

Aleksei Alekseivich German Aleksei Alekseivich German (russian: Алексей Алексеевич Герман, born 4 September 1976) is a Russian film director. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is sometimes spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid c ...

* Marina Goldovskaya * Anatoli Golovnya * Stanislav Govorukhin * Zheng Guo'en *

Lyudmila Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko (née Gurchenko; russian: link=no, Людмила Марковна Гурченко; 12 November 1935 – 30 March 2011) was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer. She was given the honorary title ...

Iris Gusner Iris Gusner (born Trautenau 16 January 1941) is a German film director and screenwriter. Life Gusner's father, Hans Walter Beyer, was a council official who was killed in the war. She took her name from her mother, who worked as a secretary. H ...

* Alexander Gutman * Jerzy Hoffman *

Rustam Ibragimbekov Rustam Mammad Ibrahim oghlu Ibrahimbeyov (or Ibrahimbekov; az, Rüstəm Məmməd İbrahim oğlu İbrahimbəyov; russian: Рустам Мамед Ибрагим оглы Ибрагимбеков; 5 February 1939 – 11 March 2022) was a Soviet a ...

* Otar Iosseliani *

Roman Karmen Roman Lazarevich Karmen (real name Efraim Leyzorovich Korenman) (russian: Роман Лазаревич Кармен; – 28 April 1978) was a Soviet film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue and ...

* Shapi Kaziev *

Edmond Keosayan Edmond Gareginovich Keosayan ( hy, Էդմոնդ Քյոսայան; russian: Эдмонд Гарегинович Кеосаян; 9 October 1936 – 21 April 1994) was an Armenian Soviet film director and musician. * 1952-54 - worked in Yerevan watc ...

* Ilya Khrzhanovsky * Marlen Khutsiev * Naum Kleiman * Elem Klimov * Andrei Konchalovsky * Alim Kouliev * Larisa Kronberg *

Lev Kulidzhanov Lev Aleksandrovich Kulidzhanov (russian: Лев Александрович Кулиджанов; 19 March 1924 – 17 February 2002) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematograph ...

Eldar Kuliev Eldar Kaisynovich Kuliev (31 December 1951 – 14 January 2017) was a Russian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was born in Frunze to Kaisyn Kuliev, an acclaimed Balkar poet and Maka, his Ingush wife, during the deportation of the Balk ...

* Tamila Koulieva-Karantinaki * Savva Kulish * Leida Laius * Anton Lapenko *

Pavel Lebeshev Pavel Timofeevich Lebeshev (russian: Павел Тимофеевич Лебешев; 15 February 1940, in Moscow – 23 February 2003, in MoscowJay Leyda Jay Leyda (February 12, 1910 – February 15, 1988)David Stirk and Elena Pinto Simon in was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his documentary compilations on ...

Việt Linh Việt Linh (b. Nguyễn Việt Linh in Saigon, French Indochina (now southern Vietnam), 1952) is a prominent Vietnamese film director. She currently lives and works in Paris, France. Her films have been shown in Vietnam, France, the United State ...

* Sergei Loznitsa * Oleg Makara * Mohammad Malas * Vladimir Menshov * Rachel Messerer *

Márta Mészáros Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span ...

* Nikita Mikhalkov * Aleksandr Misharin * Alexander Mitta * Kira Muratova *

Vladimir Nakhabtsev Vladimir Dmitrievich Nakhabtsev (russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Нахабцев; 16 July 1938, Korolyov, Moscow Oblast — 10 March 2002, Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer and actor, renowned for his work with Eldar Ryazanov ...

* Rodion Nakhapetov * Khodzha Kuli Narliyev *

Georgy Natanson Georgy Grigorievich Nathanson (russian: Гео́ргий Григо́рьевич Натансо́н; 23 May 1921 – 17 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema director, screenwriter and playwright. Worked as director at Mosfilm ...

Rufina Nifontova Rufina Dmitrievna Nifontova (russian: link=no, Руфина Дмитриевна Нифонтова; September 15, 1931 – November 27, 1994) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1978). Biography Ru ...

Mikko Niskanen Mikko Johannes Niskanen (31 January 1929 – 25 November 1990) was a Finnish film director, actor, producer and screenwriter. He directed more than 40 films between 1956 and 1988. His most acclaimed films include '' The Boys'' (1962), ''Und ...

Rashid Nugmanov Rashid Nugmanov (also written Rachid Nougmanov; russian: Рашид Мусаевич Нугманов; born March 19, 1954, in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakhs, Kazakh film director, dissent, dissident, political activistDruker, Jeremy, (2003-11- ...

Arsha Ovanesova Arsha Amartsumovna Ovanesova (, ; 1906 – 1990) was a Soviet Armenian documentary film director, screenplay writer, actress, and educator. Biography Arsha Ovanesova was born on December 23, 1906, in either Shusha or Baku, in the Russian Empi ...

* Yuri Ozerov *

* Aleksandr Petrov * Juris Podnieks *

Gennadi Poloka Gennadi Ivanovich Poloka (russian: Генна́дий Ива́нович Поло́ка; 15 July 1930, Kuybyshev – 5 December 2014, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. People's Artist of Russia (19 ...

* Galina Polskikh * Ami Priyono *

* Andres Puustusmaa * Irma Raush *

Eduard Rozovsky Eduard Aleksanrovich Rozovsky (russian: Эдуард Александрович Розовский; 14 December 1926 – 26 July 2011) was a Soviet cinematographer and cameraman, whose film credits include ''Amphibian Man'' and '' White Sun of th ...

* Eldar Ryazanov *

Samson Samsonov Samson Iosifovich Samsonov (russian: Самсо́н Ио́сифович Самсо́нов; 23 February 1921 – 31 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of ...

* Abderrahmane Sissako *

Mikhail Schweitzer Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (russian: Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR ( ...

* Karen Shakhnazarov *

Giorgi Shengelaia Giorgi Shengelaia ( ka, გიორგი შენგელაია; russian: Гео́ргий Никола́евич Шенгела́я; 11 May 1937 – 17 February 2020) was a Georgian and Soviet film director. He directed 14 films since 196 ...

Eldar Shengelaya Eldar Shengelaia ( ka, ელდარ შენგელაია; russian: Эльда́р Никола́евич Шенгела́я; born 26 January 1933) is a Georgian and Soviet film director and screenwriter who directed ten films between 1 ...

* Larisa Shepitko * Vasily Shukshin * Sjumandjaja * Lyubov Sokolova * Aleksandr Sokurov * Elena Solovey * Sergey Solovyov * Sjumandjaja *

* Viktoriya Tokareva * Alexei Uchitel * Mikhail Vartanov *

Natalya Vavilova Natalya Dmitrievna Vavilova (russian: Наталья Дмитриевна Вавилова, born 26 January 1959) is a Russian film actress. Biography Vavilova started her career as an actress at the age of fourteen. She appeared in several pict ...

Luz Valdez Milagros Bernardo, better known by her screen name Luz Valdez-Paje (born September 9, 1940) is a Filipina actress. The Valdez screen name was given to her in 1958 by Narcisa de Leon Narcisa may refer to: * ''Narcisa'' (beetle), a genus in the ...

Oleg Vidov Oleg Borisovich Vidov (russian: Олег Борисович Видов; June 11, 1943 – May 15, 2017) was a Soviet Russian American actor, film director and producer. He appeared in 50 films beginning in 1961. A refugee from his native Sovie ...

* Gheorghe Vodă * Eduard Volodarsky * Konrad Wolf * Francheska Yarbusova * Vadim Yusov *

Vytautas Žalakevičius Vytautas Žalakevičius (14 April 1930 – 12 November 1996) was a Soviet and Lithuanian film director and screenwriter. His 1973 film '' That Sweet Word: Liberty!'' won the Golden Prize at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography ...

Faculty

In 2015-2016 the Institute featured the following faculties: *Directing Faculty *Acting Faculty *Arts Faculty *Filming Faculty *Animation and Multimedia Faculty *Scripting and Film Studies Faculty *Production and Economics Faculty *Inter-faculty departments and labs: **Department of History and Philosophy **Department of Cultural Theory, History and Esthetics **Laboratory of Film Drama **Laboratory of Painting and Drawing **Laboratory of Arts **Laboratory of International Film History **Laboratory of Classical and Stop-motion Animation **Laboratory of Computer Graphics and Multimedia

References

External links

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Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography's student community (in

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