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Rolan Bykov
, 1929 - 1998
Rolan Bykov (Ролан Быков) was an actor, director and screenwriter highly involved in cinema for children and youths. He studied at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute (1951) and started his career in children and youth theatres (actor in the Moscow Young Generation Theatre, 1951-58; director in the Leningrad Theatre of Lenin’s Komsomol 1958–1960). From 1960 he started to work for cinema at the Mosfilm studio. He was the secretary of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR (1986-90), the head of the “All-Union Center of Cinema and Television for Children and Youth” (1989–1992). From 1992 he was the president of the International Fund for the Development of Cinema and Television for Children and Youth (the Rolan Bykov Foundation). He was a member of the Administrative Council of the General Assembly for Children’s and Youth Cinema at UNESCO. Bykov received many awards and other signs of honour.
Sources:
Bykov, Rolan, Я побит – начну сначала! Дневники [I’m Defeated – I’ll Start Over. Diaries], comment. E. Sanaeva, Moscow: Astrel, 2010.
Profile at kino-teatr.ru (accessed: September 30, 2019)
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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