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Director, Screenwriter Born: December 21, 1934 in Magnitogorsk, Russia Biography:Filmmaker "Gleb Panfilov" was born in Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains. Originally trained as a chemical engineer with a degree from the Urals Polytechnic Institute, he started out supervising a factory. Inspired after viewing "Mikhail Kalatozov"'s "The Cranes Are Flying" in 1957, Panfilov became fascinated with cinema and two years later created his own documentary, Join Our Ranks. It received favorable notice and Panfilov began to study at the state film school (VGIK) via correspondence. He began attending the Moscow school in person in 1963 and became a protégé of filmmaker "Yuli Raizman". Panfilov made his feature-film debut in 1968 with "V Ognye Broda Nyet" (No Passage Through the Fire). The film starred his wife, "Inna Churikova", who would staff all of his subsequent films, and contained themes that looked frankly at the relationship between Soviet people and art that would also appear in... Full Biography
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