Grigoriy Chukhray
Birthday: 1921-05-23
Deathday: 2001-10-28
Place of birth: Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
Also known as: Grigori Tchoukhrai, Григорий Чухрай
imdb_id: nm0161055
Biography:
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.