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- Birth nameIvan Aleksandrovich Pyriev
- Ivan Pyrev was born on November 4, 1901 in Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kamen-na-Obi, Altayskiy kray, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy (1948), Rencontre à Moscou ou la porchère et le berger (1941) and Six heures après la victoire (1944). He was married to Marina Ladynina and Lionella Pyryeva. He died on February 7, 1968 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- SpousesMarina Ladynina (divorced, 1 child)Lionella Pyryeva(? - February 7, 1968) (his death)
- Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1957
- The father, with Marina Ladynina, of a director Andrey Ladynin
- He served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954-57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.
- Following Joseph Stalin's death, Pyryev turned his attention to adaptations. He produced two acclaimed adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novels, The Idiot (1958, starring Yury Yakovlev) and The Brothers Karamazov (1969), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won him a Special Prize at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.
- Pyryev died at the age of 66 in Moscow. Since The Brothers Karamazov was unfinished at the time, the film stars Kirill Lavrov and Mikhail Ulyanov are usually credited with having brought the project to a conclusion.
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