Grigoriy Chukhray

Grigoriy Chukhray

ActorDirectorWriterProducerDirecting May 23 (died age 80) Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR 1955–2003 (48 year career)
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Biography

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.