Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis

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Yevgeniy Nikolayevich Andrikanis (December 27, 1909 - December 19, 1993) was a Soviet cameraman, director and screenwriter. He was also known as a front-line cameraman during the Great Patriotic War. Andrikanis received the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982 and Lenin Prize in 1978.[1]

Biography[edit]

Andrikanis was born on December 27, 1909, in Paris into a family of Russian immigrants. His father, Nikolay Adamovich Andrikanis, was a lawyer, and his mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna Schmidt, was a relative of Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt.[2] Andrikanis received secondary education in Moscow, where his family moved back to in 1916. Upon graduating from school in 1928, he worked at the Sovkino filming studio [ru] as an assistant to cameraman. Simultaneously, he studied at the cameraman's department of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He graduated from the university in 1932[3] and spent a year in the Red Army.[4][5]

Andrikanis began to work at the Mosfilm studio in 1933. He took part in filming Dreamers [ru] (1934), Cosmic Voyage (1936) and The Generation of Winners (1936). His first major work as a cinematographer was Mashenka released n 1942.[4]

In 1942–1944, he worked as a front-line cameraman on the Voronezh Front and Normandy.[5]

Andrikanis became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1968.[6] He was also a member of the USSR Union of Journalists [ru] and USSR Union of Cinematographers [ru].[7]

Andrikanis died on December 19, 1993. He is buried in the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.

Personal life[edit]

Andrikanis was married twice. His daughter from the first marriage, Tatyana Lavrova, was an actress.[8] He had another daughter from his second marriage with Galina Zakharova [ru].[5]

Partial filmography[edit]

Cinematographer[edit]

Director[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Yevgeni Andrikanis | Cinematographer, Director, Writer". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  2. ^ Цветков, Сергей (2022-05-15). Исторический калейдоскоп (in Russian). Litres. ISBN 978-5-04-375916-0.
  3. ^ Narochitskiy, Aleksey (1980). Москва--энциклопедия (in Russian). p. 107.
  4. ^ a b Юткевич, Сергей (1986). Кино: энциклопедический словарь (in Russian). Советская энциклопедия. p. 24.
  5. ^ a b c "Евгений АНДРИКАНИС". Музей ЦСДФ (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  6. ^ "Андреевский мост, Андриканис — Энциклопедия «Москва» 1980". mos80.com. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  7. ^ V pomosch' mestnomy radioveshchaniyu (in Russian). 1974. p. 13.
  8. ^ "Татьяна Лаврова". Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  9. ^ "Евгений Андриканис". www.kinopoisk.ru. Retrieved 2023-07-23.