Grigoriy Chukhray
Grigoriy Chukhray was a Ukrainian filmmaker, who gained fame outside the Soviet Union for his films The Forty-First, shown at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, and especially Ballad of a Soldier, which won a special jury prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and prizes for Best Picture and Best Director at the 1960 San Francisco International Film Festival.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1921-05-23 · Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
- Died
- 2001-10-28
Known for
- Ballad of a Soldier (1959) — Director
- The Forty-First (1956) — Director
- Clear Skies (1961) — Director
- Life Is Beautiful (1979) — Director
- Attack from the Sea (1953) — Second Unit Director
- There Was an Old Couple (1965) — Director
- The Mire (1978) — Director
- To Remember (1993) — Narrator
- My Heart Is in the Highlands (1967) — Producer
- Mortal Enemies: From Death and Survival in Stalingrad (1992) — Director
- Memory (1970) — Director
- Nazar Stodolya (1955) — Assistant Director
- One Day of Mosfilm (1985) — Self
- I'll Teach You to Dream (1985)
- Chukhray. Ballad of a Soldier (2003)
- Evgeniy Urbanskiy (1968) — Self