Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Born
May 23, 1921
Died
October 28, 2001 (age 80)
Place of Birth
Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
Also Known As
Grigori Tchoukhrai
Г. Чухрай
Grigoriy Chukhray
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.
