Victor Turov

25.10.1936 - 31.10.1996

Viktor Turov was born on October 25, 1936 in Mogilev (according to other sources - in the village of Bryli, Mogilev region). The father of the future filmmaker during the Great Patriotic War was shot as partisan by the Nazi occupiers. Victor himself, along with his mother and sister, was a prisoner of a concentration camp near Aachen. Since 1959 - Director of the Belarusfilm film studio (Minsk). The author of a number of documentaries and stories in the film magazine "Soviet Belarus". He graduated from the directing department of VGIK (1961, workshop of A.P. Dovzhenko and M.E. Chiaureli). In 1989-1996 led the director's workshop at the Belarusian Academy of Arts (professor). In 1976-1981, he was the first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the Belarusian SSR. Academician of the World Academy of Slavic Art. Member of the CPSU since 1977. During his short creative life, Viktor Turov made 26 films that represent the golden fund of Belarusian cinema. Many of them have been awarded the most prestigious film festivals. The name of the film director is included by UNESCO among the 50 best directors in the history of cinema. Victor Turov died on October 31, 1996. He was buried in Minsk at the Eastern cemetery.