Viktor Sokolov is a well-known Soviet and Russian film director, whose career took place in the 1960s and 1990s. Among other things, he has proven himself as a successful actor and screenwriter.
Early biography
Viktor Sokolov was born on November 21, 1928 in Moscow. He had barely finished school when the Great Patriotic War began. In the post-war years, Victor could not find himself in life for a long time, until one day he became interested in cinema. He entered the acting department of GITIS, which he successfully graduated in 1951. Soon after that, he was offered one of the leading roles in the film "Towards Life", where Nadezhda Rumyantseva first appeared on the screens with him.
Having tried himself as an actor, Viktor Sokolov decided that he liked directing more, so he received a second, director's education at VGIK. In 1960 he was promoted to production director at Lenfilm. Sokolov's first films were "Until Next Spring", "When Bridges Are Raised" and "Friends and the Years". The last of these paintings, released in 1965, was especially liked by critics. The next two films, A Day of Sun and Rain and Blue Ice, released in 1967 and 1969, further reinforced the view of Victor as a talented and innovative director.
Further career
In the 1960s, Viktor Sokolov had a chance to appear as an actor in several more films: "And again morning", "Comrade Arseny" and "Nikolai Bauman", but this was, rather, an exception to the rule. He remained devoted to directing and, in addition to films, was engaged in staging theatrical performances. Librettos of the ballets "Pearl", "Viper" and "Hangar" were presented under his authorship.
In the 1970s, three films by the director were released: "Here is our home", "My life" and "Until dawn." He wrote the scripts for the last two personally. They were highly appreciated by film critics, and Sokolov was awarded two significant awards - "For the visual solution of the film" and "Prize of the Caspian Oilmen". As the director himself said: "I did not shoot a single shot without love for the Motherland."
Personal life and death
Viktor Sokolov has shot several more famous films, including "I am an actress", "Meet me in the metro" and "Socrates". After 1995, he left the director's chair and retired. On August 7, 2015, Viktor Sokolov died after a long illness and was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg.
The talented director was married to Lyudmila Kovaleva, an honored art worker of the Russian Federation and a famous ballet teacher and tutor. She brought up such masters of the ballet scene as Diana Vishneva, Sofia Gumerova, Olga Esina, Maria Yakovleva and others. Lyudmila is in good health, having recently celebrated her 79th birthday and continues to engage in teaching.
