Grigoriy Chukhray
Birth date
May 23, 1921
Death date
October 28, 2001
Place of birth
Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
Profession
Directing
Age
80 years
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 TchoukhraiГ. Чухрай
