Ilya Kopalin
{{Short description|Soviet film director (1900–1976)}}
Ilya Petrovich Kopalin ({{langx|ru|Илья́ Петро́вич Копа́лин}}; 1900–1976) was a Soviet film director remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gagarin's space flight.{{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=362–364}}
Life
He was born the son of a peasantSoviet Calendar 1917–1947, Foreign Publishing House, Moscow 1947 on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow.{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465679/|title=Ilya Kopalin|website=IMDb}} In his youth he worked in a factory in Moscow. After October 1917 he trained first as a land surveyor then as a pilot. A chance meeting with Dziga Vertov led him instantly into an interest in the cinema. Aged 24 he went to work for Vertov as a camera-man, working on films such as Kinoglaz,{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ae2392f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013073500/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ae2392f|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 13, 2016|title=Kinoglaz (1924)|website=BFI}} but later would work independently. His early films look at country life and agriculture in the newly created USSR.
His work gained him six Stalin Prizes and the Order of Lenin. He died in Moscow on 12 June 1976.Sergei Yutkevich. Film Encyclopedic Dictionary (1987) p. 209.
Filmography
- Moscow (1927)
- For the Harvest (1929)
- Fifteen Years of Soviet Cinematography (1933)
- Engineers of the Human Soul (1934) – a documentary recording the First Congress of Soviet Writers
- Abyssinia (1935)
- China's Rebuff (1937)
- Ma Dunae (On the Danube) (1940) – Stalin Prize 1941
- Rout of the German Troops at Moscow (1941)
- Stalin's Speech of November 6, 1942 (1943)
- Moscow Strikes Back (1942) – Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
- Crimea Conference (1945)
- Liberated Czechoslovakia (1945)
- Victory Day Country (1948)
- New Albania (1949)
- Man Conquers Nature (1950)
- Albania (1953)
- Great Farewell (1953)
- For Peace and Friendship (1954)
- Songs over the Vistula (1955)
- Festival Melody (1955)
- Warsaw Meeting (1956)
- Lulz Shippers (1959)
- Destiny of a Great City (1961)
- First Flight to the Stars (1961) – a chronicle of Yuri Gagarin's space flight
- Tocsin of Peace (1963)
- Qunetra Ruins Accused (1974)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0465679}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161013075752/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f8c9913 Ilya Kopalin] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
- {{in lang|ru}} {{YouTube|gZGe1XuCazU| Разгром немецких войск под Москвой (Moscow Strikes Back) (1942)}} – Duration: 1:06:21
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