Ivan Pyryev

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev 17 November 1901 7 February 1968 was a SovietRussian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema He was awarded six Stalin Prizes 1941 1942 1946 1946 1948 1951 served as Director of the Mosfilm studios 195457 and was for a time the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry Pyryev was born in KamennaObi in the Tomsk Governorate of the Russian Empire now Altai Krai Russia His early career included acting on stage directed by Vsevolod Meyerhold in The Forest and by Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletcult Theatre production The Mexican Pyryev also acted in Eisensteins first short film Glumovs Diary Pyryevs early career included production jobs behind the camera such as work for director Yuri Tarich He débuted as a director in the age of silent film with Strange Woman 1929 During the 1930s and 1940s Pyryev rivaled Grigori Aleksandrov as the countrys most successful director of musical comedies all of which starred his wife Marina Ladynina Even during wartime when the Soviet film industry had been evacuated to AlmaAta Pyryev made popular and lighthearted features In Six OClock after the War is Over the Romantic characters played by Ladynina and Yevgeny Samoilov when separated by war arrange a date at 6 PM on the Victory Day and the victory celebrations are shown towards the end of the film which was released in November 1944