Pavel Chukhray, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Pavel Chukhray

Soviet film director

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1946

Place of Birth: Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Pavel Chukhray

  • Pavel Grigoryevich Chukhray (Russian: ??´??? ?????´?????? ?????´?; Bykovo, Moscow Oblast, October 14, 1946) is a Russian screenwriter and film director.
  • He is the son of the prominent Russian film director Grigory Chukhray. He is best known for his film The Thief (1997), which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[1] and won the Nika Award for Best Picture and Best Directing.
  • He is a People's Artist of Russia.
  • He has been nominated and won numerous international prizes in Russia, Europe and the United States, including the Venice Film Festival. Steven Spielberg invited Pavel Chukhray to participate in his project: “Broken Silence” (2002), an international documentary mini-series about the holocaust.
  • The series consists of five foreign-language films featuring testimonies from Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia and directed by distinguished filmmakers from each of these countries.
  • Pavel Chukhray directed the segment "Children from the Abyss," detailing the experience of Holocaust survivors and their resistance, betrayal, rescue, and the desire for revenge in this Russian-language documentary.
  • The film series was subtitled into 11 languages (including English) and has aired on television in 18 countries worldwide. In 2007, Chukhray adapted a novel by Nikolai Gogol to film, resulting in a production called The Russian Game, about an Italian card sharper who is hounded by creditors and travels to Russia to hustle some quick money.
  • On his way, he meets a group of Russian gamblers that sympathize with his situation and agree to collaborate with him.

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