Grigori Kozintsev
Director
Grigori Kozintsev (1905- 1973) was one of the great innovators of Soviet cinema. His life and career spanned the advent of cinema, silent film, and its modern incarnation in the postwar period. In 1921, as the possibilities of film were becoming apparent, he formed FEKS, an avant-garde theatre and film company, alongside Leonid Trauberg. After sound revolutionised cinema, he was drawn to adaptations which have ascended to classic status, including Don Quixote (1957), Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1970).
