Vladimir Vladimirovich Korsh-Sablin

May, 1939 - January 24, 2010

Vladimir Vladimirovich Korsh-Sablin (real name is Sablin; Belorussian. Uladzіmir Uladzіmіravіch Korsh-Sablin; March 16 (29), 1900, Moscow - July 6, 1974) - Belarusian Soviet film director, film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Laureate of the Stalin Prize (1950). One of the founders of Belarusian cinema. Vladimir Korsh-Sablin was born in Moscow. After graduating from a real school, in 1917 he began his career as an actor in the theater of his maternal grandfather, Fyodor Adamovich Korsh - Korsh Theater (according to family tradition, his grandfather, impressed by the success of his grandson, allowed him to combine both names). Member of the Civil War. He served in the theaters of Simferopol, Melitopol, Kazan. He came to the cinema in 1923. Since 1925 he was an assistant, assistant to the director and actor of the Goskino (Sovkino) film studio in Moscow, since 1926 he was an actor and director (since 1929) of the Soviet Belarus film studio of the special management Belgoskino (later Belarusfilm) ; filmed comedies, drama films, biographical films. In 1945-1960 and 1969-1974, Korsh-Sablin was the artistic director of the Belarusfilm film studio. Since 1957 - Chairman of the Organizing Bureau of the Union of Cinematography Workers of the Belarusian SSR. In 1962-1974 he was the first secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the BSSR. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1948. Vladimir Vladimirovich Korsh-Sablin died on July 6, 1974. He was buried in Minsk at the Eastern cemetery.