Ilya Frez
{{Short description|Soviet film director}}
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Ilya Abramovich Frez ({{langx|ru|Илья Абрамович Фрэз}}; 20 August 1909, Roslavl – 22 June 1994, Moscow), PAU, was a Soviet film director primarily known for his films for younger viewers.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=229–231}} Among his films was the internationally popular I Loved You of 1967.Mira Liehm, Antonín J. Liehm The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945 1977 Page 324 "Among the more interesting films made for young viewers were the internationally popular I Loved You (Ya vas lyubil-1967) by Ilya Frez (b. 1909)"Soviet Film - Volumes 212-223 1975 - Page 28 ILIA FREZ, film directorDavid Gillespie, Russian Cinema 2014 Page 89 The fraught nature of male—female relationships is treated with more than a hint of irony by Ilia Frez in his 1985 film The ...Film Culture - Issues 63-69 - Page 147 Ilia Frez and Russian Children's Films, by Steven
Selected filmography
- First-Year Student (1948)
- Vasyok Trubachyov and His Comrades (1955)
- Trubachyov's Detachment Is Fighting (1957)
- I Loved You (1967)
- Adventures of the Yellow Suitcase (1970)
- Crank from 5th B (1970)
- We Didn't Learn This (1975)
- ''Could One Imagine? (1981)
- Quarantine (1983)
- Personal file of Judge Ivanova (1985)