Ilya Averbakh

Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh (Russian: Илья Александрович Авербах; July 28, 1934, in Leningrad – January 11, 1986, in Moscow) was a Soviet film director.[1][2] His 1972 film, Monologue, was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Averbakh was awarded the title Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1976. His wife, screenwriter Natalia Riazantseva, wrote the scripts for several of his films. In 2003, Andrei Kravchuk made a documentary about the director.[1]

  1. ^ a b Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman Littlefield. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-1442268425.
  2. ^ Молодые годы петербургского режиссёра. Iskusstvo Kino (in Russian)
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Monologue". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-19.