The Hindu: Malayalam translations of stories by Vasily Shukshin released
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Vasily Shukshin
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet and Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transitioned to acting by his late 20s.
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entertainment · Russian writer (1929–1974) · writer · film director · screenwriter · playwright · actor · director · prose writer · film actor · also Vasily Shukshin, Vasily Makarovich Shukshin, Shukshin
Born 25 July 1929 · Died 2 October 1974 · Q316086
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2026· 2 entries
Moviefone: Vasily Shukshin. I've Come to Give you Free Rein - Where to Watch
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize (1976).
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1974· 1 entry
Died 1974-10-02.
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded USSR State Prize for By the Lake (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1969).
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR for Your Son and Brother (1967).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Winning top honours at the All-Union Film Festival in Leningrad and the Golden Lion at the XVI International Film Festival in Venice
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1960· 1 entry
Studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (1954–1960).
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1958· 2 entries
Shukshin had his first leading role in Marlen Khutsiyev's film Two Fedors and appeared in Andrei Tarkovsky's graduation film
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Published his first short story "Two on the Cart" in the magazine Smena
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1954· 1 entry
Shukshin entered the directors' department of the VGIK; he studied under Mikhail Romm and Sergei Gerasimov, and graduated in 1960
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1953· 1 entry
Was demobilized due to a stomach ulcer and returned to his native village
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1949· 1 entry
Shukshin was drafted into the Navy
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1946· 1 entry
Shukshin left his native village and worked as a metal craftsman at several enterprises in the trust Soyuzprommekhanizatsiya: at the turbine plant in Kaluga, at the tractor plant in Vladimir, etc
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1945· 1 entry
After two and a half years at the school but before finishing, he quit to work in a kolkhoz
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1933· 1 entry
His father, Makar Leontievich Shukshin, was arrested and executed on the charges of participating in an "anti-kolkhoz plot" during the Soviet collectivization
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-07-25.
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