Viktor Rozov


Viktor Sergeyevich Rozov was a Soviet and Russian dramatist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 20 dramatic pieces and 6 film scripts, including Вечно живые/''Alive Forever, the basis for his film script The Cranes Are Flying''. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Letters, and was the president of the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts and a member of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Biography

Viktor Rozov was the son of accountant Sergei Fyodorovich Rozov and Yekaterina Ilyinichna. During the Yaroslavl rebellion in 1918, the family home was burned, forcing the family to move to Vetluga. It was there that Viktor completed three years of primary education. From 1923, he lived and studied in Kostroma. In 1929, he failed the entrance exams at the Russian State Agrarian University – [Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy|Russian State University of Agriculture] in Moscow and started working in a textile factory in Kostroma. That same year, he became a regular actor and spectator of Kostroma's youth theater. In 1932 he entered the Technical School in Kostroma. In 1934, he entered the Theatre of Revolution School in Moscow.
After the [Soviet Union in World War II|entry into war of the Soviet Union] in June 1941, Rozov joined the 8th National Division Popular militia in the Krasnopresnenskaya district. In the autumn of that year, he was seriously injured. He left hospital in mid-1942, and led a propaganda group at the front; at the same time, he took correspondence courses at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. At the end of the war, he interrupted his studies at the institute and founded the Theatre for children and youth of Almaty. Returning to Moscow, he worked as an actor and director at the Theatre of the Central House of Railway Culture. In 1953, Rozov completed his studies at the Institute of Literature.
From 1949, his plays have been staged in various theatres. His play Friends, presented in 1949 at the Central Youth Theatreh failed to see the light because it was considered "too sentimental". Director Anatoly Efros directed Rozov's "Well and good!", "Finding Joy", "The Wedding Day" and "Before Dinner"), with Oleg Yefremov. Mikhail Kalatozov's The Cranes Are Flying, was an adaptation of Rozov's "Alive Forever". He received the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival "for his humanism, his unity and his high artistic quality".
Rozov died at the age of 91 and was interred at Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow.

Personal life

Rozov married to Nadezhda Varfolomeyevna Kozlova. He had a son, Sergei - a director, and a daughter, Tatiana – an actress at the Moscow Art Theatre.

Works

Plays

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  • ' The Page of Life '
  • ' Freemasters The unequal battle On the Road Before dinner On the wedding day The inventor An Ordinary Story The Traditional Collection On the treadmill From evening until noon Boys The Situation The Four Drops Riders from the station Rosa The nest of the grouse The Host By the Sea At Home Hidden spring Lyubkin
  • ''Hoffman''

Filmography (screenwriter)

  • 1956 - In Good Time!
  • 1957 - The Cranes Are Flying - the screen version of the play "Life Eternal"
  • 1959 - Letter Never Sent
  • 1960 - Noisy Day - the film adaptation of the comedy "Finding Joy"
  • 1961 - Auf der Suche nach Glück - German television version of the film "Finding Joy"
  • 1962 - På jakt efter lyckan “Finding Joy”
  • 1968 - On the wedding day
  • 1972 - For All the Responsibility - the film adaptation of the play "The Traditional Collection"
  • 1972 - Life Page
  • 1973 - In Good Time! - TV version of the play of the same name
  • 1975 - To the end of the world...
  • 1980 - A Siketfajd fészke
  • 1980 - Before dinner
  • 1981 - From evening until noon
  • 1982 - A few drops
  • 1987 - The Riders
  • 1987 - ''Grouse's Nest''

Distinctions

He received Russian and Soviet orders and awards, such as: