Savva Kulish

{{short description|Soviet film director}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}

{{Infobox person

|image =Savva Kulish.jpg

| name = Savva Kulish

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|10|17|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (now Ukraine)

| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|6|9|1936|10|17|df=yes}}

| death_place = Yaroslavl, Russia

| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1959—2001

}}

Savva Yakovlevich Kulish ({{langx|ru|Са́вва Я́ковлевич Кули́ш}}; 17 October 1936 – 9 June 2001) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.{{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=385–386}} He directed eight films between 1966 and 1994. His 1979 film Takeoff won the Silver Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |title=11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) |accessdate=17 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403102012/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |archivedate=3 April 2014 }} He was awarded with the People's Artist of Russia in 1995.[http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1148492 Указ Президента РФ от 19 октября 1995 г. N 1062 «О присвоении почётных званий Российской Федерации»] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426202238/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1;1148492 |date=26 April 2013 }}