Ballad of a Soldier
Person· Directing
Grigoriy Chukhray
- Born
- May 23, 1921
- Died
- October 28, 2001
- From
- Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
Also known as
Grigori Tchoukhrai · Г. Чухрай
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.
