Yevgeniy_Nikolayevich_Andrikanis
Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis
Soviet cameraman and filmmaker
Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis (December 27, 1909 - December 19, 1993) was a Soviet cameraman, director and screenwriter. He was also known as a front-line cameraman during the Great Patriotic War. Andrikanis received the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982 and Lenin Prize in 1978.[1]
Andrikanis was born on December 27, 1909, in Paris into a family of Russian immigrants. His father, Nikolay Adamovich Andrikanis, was a lawyer, and his mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna Schmidt, was a relative of Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt.[2] Andrikanis received secondary education in Moscow, where his family moved back to in 1916. Upon graduating from school in 1928, he worked at the Sovkino filming studio [ru] as an assistant to cameraman. Simultaneously, he studied at the cameraman's department of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He graduated from the university in 1932[3] and spent a year in the Red Army.[4][5]
Andrikanis began to work at the Mosfilm studio in 1933. He took part in filming Dreamers [ru] (1934), Cosmic Voyage (1936) and The Generation of Winners (1936). His first major work as a cinematographer was Mashenka released n 1942.[4]
In 1942–1944, he worked as a front-line cameraman on the Voronezh Front and Normandy.[5]
Andrikanis became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1968.[6] He was also a member of the USSR Union of Journalists [ru] and USSR Union of Cinematographers [ru].[7]
Andrikanis died on December 19, 1993. He is buried in the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
Andrikanis was married twice. His daughter from the first marriage, Tatyana Lavrova, was an actress.[8] He had another daughter from his second marriage with Galina Zakharova [ru].[5]
Cinematographer
- 1937 - Gavrosh [ru]
- 1938 - Peat-Bog Soldiers [Russian: Bolotnye soldaty]
- 1941 - First cavalry [ru] [Russian: Pervaya konnaya]
- 1944 - Days and Nights [Russian: Dni i nochi]
- 1944 - The Moscow Sky [Russian: Nebo Moskvy]
- 1948 - Three Encounters [Russian: Tri vstrechi]
- 1951 - Przhevalsky
- 1953 - The Great Warrior Skanderbeg [Russian: Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg]
- 1955 - Othello
- 1957 - Stories About Lenin [Russian: Rasskazy o Lenine], Pardesi
Director
- 1960 - Northern Story [Russian: Severnaya povest]
- 1965 - Killed at Dawn [ru] [Russian: Kazneny na rassvete][1][9]
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- Юткевич, Сергей (1986). Кино: энциклопедический словарь (in Russian). Советская энциклопедия. p. 24.
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- V pomosch' mestnomy radioveshchaniyu (in Russian). 1974. p. 13.
- "Татьяна Лаврова". Retrieved 2023-07-23.
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