Igor Talankin

Igor Talankin
Born
Igor Vasilyevich Talankin

(1927-10-03)3 October 1927
Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died24 July 2010(2010-07-24) (aged 82)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1960–1992

Igor Vasilyevich Talankin (Russian: И́горь Васи́льевич Тала́нкин) (3 October 1927 – 24 July 2010) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.[1] His film Splendid Days (1960, co-directed with Georgiy Daneliya) won the Crystal Globe (the main award) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and Tchaikovsky (1969) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[2]

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 680–682. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. ^ "The 44th Academy Awards (1972) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-11-27.