Anatoli Efros

Anatoli Efros

Birth : 1925-07-03, Kharkov, USSR

Death : 1987-01-13

History

Anatoli Efros was an acclaimed Soviet theatre and film director who left a lasting legacy for future generations of stage directors and performers.

Profile

Anatoli Efros

Movies

Убегающий август
Writer
Romeo and Juliet
Director
This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual production design and mise-en-scene.
The Rest Is Silence
Director
TV version of the acclaimed stage production of Viña Delmar's script for the film Make Way for Tomorrow.
Islands in the Stream
Director
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.
On Thursday and Never Again
Director
On the eve of his wedding, a young doctor leaves Moscow to see his mother who lives in a nature reserve. Things are complicated by the fact that the doctor's ex-girlfriend is also there, and she is expecting a child.
Fantasia
Director
A TV movie inspired by Ivan Turgenev's Torrents of Spring.
Dear Liar
Director
This TV production is a filmed version of a play based on correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell.
Pages from Pechorin's Journal
Writer
Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".
Pages from Pechorin's Journal
Director
Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".
Tanya
Screenplay
The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.
Tanya
Director
The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. Based on Aleksei Arbuzov's play.
Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
Director
Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.
Two on the Steppes
Director
In the summer of 1942, the Soviet army is fighting the Germans on the Don River. Young lieutenant Ogarkov gets lost in the steppe and fails to deliver a redeployment order. For that, he is sentenced to death. Now, another soldier has to lead him across the steppes to his death.
A Leap Year
Director
On the streets of the regional city, a cheerful holiday bustle reigns. The apartment of the Kupriyanovs is also noisy — friends of their youngest daughter Yulka are preparing for the New Year. The old driver Leonid Kupriyanov will not have to celebrate the holiday with his family, he should go on the next trip. Preparing for the New Year, none of the heroes imagined what dramatic events would fall on them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of three families would intertwine, how difficult it would be to recover from their experiences ...
A Noisy Day
Director
On an ordinary Moscow street, a family lives together in an unremarkable house: a mother and four children. But one "fine" day in this family there is a violent conflict over the furniture with which the apartment is packed. However, furniture is just an excuse. In fact, two worldviews collide, different ideas about life values...