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Grigoriy Chukhray

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Born May 23, 1921 · Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR

Died October 28, 2001

Also known as Grigori Tchoukhrai · Г. Чухрай

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Biography

Grigoriy Chukhray was a Ukrainian filmmaker, who gained fame outside the Soviet Union for his films The Forty-First, shown at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, and especially Ballad of a Soldier, which won a special jury prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and prizes for Best Picture and Best Director at the 1960 San Francisco International Film Festival.

Awards & recognition

  • BAFTA Award — Best Film · 1962
  • Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"
  • Bodil Award — Best Non-American Film
  • Commemorative Medal of the Partisans of 1941
  • Guards unit
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  • Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
  • Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
  • Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Lenin Prize
  • Medal "For the Capture of Vienna"
  • Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • Medal "Veteran of Labour"
  • Nika Award
  • Nika Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
  • Order of Labour
  • Order of the Partisan Star
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  • Order of the Red Star
  • People's Artist of the RSFSR
  • People's Artist of the USSR
  • Prize of the President of the Russian Federation
  • Special Jury Prize
  • Targa d'Oro
  • Wound stripe
  • Zhukov Medal
  • Academy Award — Best Writing, Original Screenplay · 1962 · nominated

Filmography1 title

Ballad of a Soldier

1959Director, Writer