Awards :
Artiste du peuple de l'URSS (1952)
Lauréat du prix Lénine en 1960, des prix d'Etat de l'Union Soviétique et de la Russie en 1952, 1977 et 1984
Héros du travail socialiste en 1980. Artiste émérite de L'Union Soviétique
War and Peace : Oscar du meilleur film étranger à Hollywood en 1969
They fought for their country : Nominated, Cannes Film Festival, 1975
Special Prize, International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary,1976
National Prize of Russia, 1977
Prize Brothers Vasilyev for Vadim Yusov (cinematography), 1977
Biography
Born on September 25, 1920 in Belozerka (now Kherson region, Ukraine).
Actor, film director, screenwriter, teacher.
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (08/27/1951).
People's Artist of the USSR (05/17/1952).
Hero of Socialist Labor (09.24.1980).
Honored Worker of Culture of Czechoslovakia.
He graduated from high school number 4 in Taganrog in 1938. While studying at the second school in the city of Yeisk, he attended a theater group. He began his acting career at the Taganrog Drama Theater (1937). Studied at the Rostov Theater School (1938-1941).
In 1941-1942 he served as an actor in the Theater of the Red Army in the city of Grozny.
Participant of the Great Patriotic War.
Graduated from the acting department of VGIK (1948, workshop of S.A. Gerasimov). Thesis - the role of Valko in the film "Young Guard".
Since 1959 he has been a director of the Mosfilm film studio. Directorial debut - the film "The Fate of Man" (1959).
Since 1971 - head of the acting workshop of VGIK, since 1974 - professor.
In 1971 he was elected Secretary of the Board of the USSR Investigative Committee.
From 1972 to 1994 - Artistic director of the Vremya studio. In 1986, during the historic perestroika V Congress of USSR Cinematographers, Sergei Bondarchuk, along with other recognized figures of Soviet cinema S.I.
Sergei Fedorovich died in the afternoon of October 20, 1994 in a Moscow hospital from myocardial infarction. Two hours before his death, he received Holy Communion and confessed. The great director was buried on October 24 at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 10, row number 9, place number 1).
In the late 1940s, the actress Inna Makarova became his wife. In this marriage, on May 10, 1950, daughter Natalya was born, who later became an actress and director.
In 1959, Sergei Fedorovich married actress Irina Skobtseva. In this stellar union, two children were born: daughter - actress Alena Bondarchuk, son - actor and director Fyodor Bondarchuk
