Rostislav Yurenev

Rostislav Yurenev was born April 13, 1912 in Vitebsk. Rostislav Yurenev was a Russian film critic, teacher and Doctor of Arts. As an author and editorhe published three-volume "Essays on the Soviet Cinema" (1956-1961), six-volume "Selected Works S. M. Eisenstein"(1964-1971), and other scientific papers and publications on theoretical heritage of the classics of domestic and foreign cinema. He has published 44 books. Among them, "The Soviet Biographic Film" (1949), "Alexander Dovzhenko" (1959), "The Soviet Comedy" (1964), "Funny on the Screen" (1964), "Innovation and Tradition of Soviet Cinema" (1965), "A Brief History Soviet Cinema" (1979), "A Wonderful Window. A Brief History of World Cinema "(1983), a two-volume monograph "Sergei Eisenstein. Plan. Movies. Method" (1985-1989) and others. Yurenev was also the author of the scripts for more than ten documentary films, including Sergey Eyzenshteyn (1958), "Vsevolod Pudovkin" (1960), "The Birth of Soviet Cinema" (1968), "Movie says about himself" (1969), "Ivan A. Pyryev "(1979).