Wadim Yussow
Year of birth, place
Biography
Wadim Yussow studied Cinematography at the VGIK (Russian State Institute of Cinematography, Moscow) in the 1950s. He graduated in 1954 in the master class of Boris Voltchek and since then he works as cinematographer for Mosfilm. He teaches at the VGIK since 1979 and became the leader of the camera department in 1983.
Selected Filmography: | |
| 1960 | »Katok i skripka«/»The Steamroller and the Violin«/»Violin and Roller« [Andrei Tarkovsky] color; short/50m; production VGIK |
| 1961 | »Ivanovo detstvo«/»Ivan's Childhood«/»My Name Is Ivan«/»The Youngest Spy« [Andrei Tarkovsky & Eduard Abalov] b&w |
»Ya shagayu po Moskve«/»I Step Through Moscow«/»Meet Me in Moscow«/»I Walk About Moscow« [Georgi Danelia] b&w | |
| 1964 | »Andrei Rublyov«/»Andrei Rublev«/»St. Andrei Passion« [Andrei Tarkovsky] ss/b&w/color; completed in 1971 |
| 1965 | »Tridtsat tri« [Nenauchnaya fantastika]/»The Thirty-Three« [Georgi Danelia] b&w; ph: Sergei Vronsky |
1969 | »Ar daidardo«/»Ne goryuj«/»Don't Grieve«/»Cheer Up!« [Georgi Danelia] |
| 1971 | »Solyaris«/»Solaris« [Andrei Tarkovsky] ss/b&w/color |
| 1972 | »Sovsem propashchij/Hopelessly Lost«/»The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn« [Georgi Danelia] ss/color |
| 1973 | »Zerkalo«/»The Mirror« [Andrei Tarkovsky] b&w/color; ph: Georgi Rerberg; Vadim Yusov refused to shoot this film |
1975 | »Oni srazhalis za rodinu«/»They Fought for Their Country« [Sergei Bondarchuk] ss/color |
| 1977 | »Yuliya Vrevskaya« [Nikola Korabov] |
| 1982 | »Krasnye kolokola« [film pervyj - Meksika v ogne]/»Mexico in Flames«/»Red Bells« [Sergei Bondarchuk] |
»Krasnye kolokola II« [film vtoroy - Ya videl rozhdeniye novogo mira]/»Red Bells II« [Sergei Bondarchuk] | |
| 1986 | »Boris Godunov« [Sergei Bondarchuk] |
| 1987 | »Chyornyj monakh«/»The Black Monk« [Ivan Dykhovichnyi] b&w/color |
1989 | »Vent de galerne« [Bernard Favre] color; battles visual adv; ph: Jean-François Gondre |
| 1990 | »Pasport«/»The Passport« [Georgi Danelia] color |
| 1992 | »Prorva«/»Moscow Parade« [Ivan Dykhovichnyi] color |
1993 | »Vspominaya Chekhova«/»Remembering Chekov« [Nikita Mikhalkov] color |
»Anna: Ot shesti do vosemnadtsati«/»Anna: From Six Till Eighteen« | |
1995 | »Out of the Present« [Andrei Ujica] color; doc/96m; cph: Sergei Krikalev |
| 2002 | »The Lost Secret of Catharina the Great« [Peter Woditsch] b&w/color; doc/52m; cph: Hans Sonnefeld, Frans Leys & Pierre Gordower |
| »Kopejka/The Kopeck« [Ivan Dykhovichnyi] color; cph: Aleksandr Ilkhovsky | |
| Selected Awards: | |
| 1988 | Venice FF 'Golden Osella' for »Chyornyj monakh« |
| 1989 | 'Nika' Award nom for »Chyornyj monakh« |
| 1992 | 'Nika' Award for »Pasport« |
| 1993 | 'Nika' Award for »Prorva« |
| 1994 | 'Triumph' Award for the 'Encouragement of the Achievements in Art and Literature' |
| [2004] | |