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Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Бондарев, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise Liberation (1968–71). Bondarev took part in World War II as an artillery officer and became a member of the CPSU in 1944. He graduated in 1951 from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. His first collection of stories entitled On a Large River was published in 1953.His first successes in literature, the novels The Battalions Request Fire (1957) and The Last Salvoes (1959) were part of a new trend of war fiction which dispensed with pure heroes and vile villains in favor of emphasizing the true human cost of war. The Last Salvos was adapted for the cinema in 1961. His next novels Silence (1962), The Two (1964) and Relatives (1969) established him as a leading Soviet writer. His novel Silence became a landmark as the first work to depict a citizen who had been wrongly sentenced to the Gulag. His novels generally cover topics of ethics and personal choices.In the novel The Hot Snow (1969) he again used the theme of war, creating an epic canvas dealing with the Battle of Stalingrad from the viewpoint of its many participants including common soldiers and military commanders. In his novel The Shore (1975), a Soviet writer learns that a German woman, with whom he had a passionate love affair as a young officer, still loves him. He dies before reaching the promised "shore" of his youthful dream. In The Choice (1980) a terminally ill expatriate kills himself on a visit to Moscow so that he can be buried in the city of his youth. His fate causes an old Soviet friend of his to engage in a painful exploration of existential questions.Bondarev did also much work for the cinema. Besides adapting his own novels for the screen, he co-authored the script for the serial film Liberation.In political life during the early 1990s, Bondarev participated in Russia's national-communist opposition politics, belonging to the National Salvation Front leadership. Bondarev was a member of the central committee of the hardline Communist Party of the RSFSR at the end of the Mikhail Gorbachev era; in July 1991 he signed the anti-Perestroika declaration "A Word to the People".
Bondarev died on 29 March 2020 in Moscow at the age of 96.
Filmography
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Movies 13
Writer 13
The Choice (1987)
Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
The Shore (1984)
Forgive Us (1979)
The Hot Snow (1972)
Liberation: The Last Assault (1971)
Liberation: Battle for Berlin (1971)
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow (1970)
Liberation: The Break Through (1970)
Liberation: The Fire Bulge (1970)
Silence (1964)
49 Days (1962)
The Great Battle
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1924-03-15
Deathday2020-03-29 (96 years old)
Birth PlaceOrsk, Russia
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsJurij Bondarev , Юрий Бондарев, Юрый Бондараў, Iuri Bóndarev, Juri Bondarew, Yuri Bóndarev, Jurij Bondariew
AwardsUSSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Guards unit, Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, Medal "For Courage", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Friendship of Peoples, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Order of the Badge of Honour, Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award, Honorary citizen of Volgograd, Patriarchal Literary Prize, Pentru order of courage, Mikhail Sholokhov International Award for Literature and Science, Alexander Fadeyev Medal, Wound stripe, Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, Great literary prize of Russia, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Patriotic War, Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "Veteran of Labour", Star of People's Friendship, Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Lenin Prize
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