Birthday
1921/05/23
Day of death
2001/10/28 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
Also know as
Grigori Tchoukhrai, Григорий Чухрай
Grigoriy Chukhray was a Ukrainian filmmaker, who gained fame outside the Soviet Union for his films The Forty-First, shown at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, and especially Ballad of a Soldier, which won a special jury prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and prizes for Best Picture and Best Director at the 1960 San Francisco International Film Festival.