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Grigoriy Chukhray
Directing
23 May 1921
† 28 Oct 2001
Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
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.
Also Known As
Grigori Tchoukhrai, Г. Чухрай
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