1. Georgiy Daneliya (1930)

Soviet Film Director

Award-winning director of popular Russian films like 1977's Mimino and 1979's The Autumn Marathon.

2. Oļģerts Dunkers (1932)

Soviet Film Director

Latvian actor and film director best known for his film A Ghost in the Garden.

3. Andrei Konchalovsky (1937)

Soviet Film Director

Award-winning director best known for acclaimed films The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved But Did Not Marry, and The Inner Circle.

4. Nikita Mikhalkov (1945)

Soviet Film Director

Director of internationally recognized films Urga and Dark Eyes who served as head of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

5. Rolands Kalniņš (1922)

Soviet Film Director

Rolands Kalniņš is a Latvian film director. In 1980 his film Saruna ar karalieni received Latvian Film Prize as the best documentary.

6. Pyotr Tochilin (1974)

Soviet Film Director

Pyotr Vladimirovich Tochilin is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He has won several film awards.

7. Natalya Bondarchuk (1950)

Soviet Film Director

Natalya Sergeyevna Bondarchuk is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris as Hari. She is the daughter of the...

8. Jānis Streičs (1936)

Soviet Film Director

Jānis Streičs is a Latvian film director. Streičs' 1991 comedy film Cilvēka bērns was runner-up for the Chicago International Children's Film Festival Rights of the Child Award in 1994.

9. Samvel Gasparov (1938)

Soviet Film Director

Samvel Vladimirovich Gasparov is a Soviet/Russian film director and short story writer. He worked for some time at the Odessa Film Studio. Gasporov is one of the Russian filmmakers most...

10. Temur Babluani (1948)

Soviet Film Director

Temur Babluani is a Georgian film director script writer and actor. Bebluani was born in the mountainous Svanetian village of Chaguri in the Georgian SSR. He graduated from Tbilisi...

11. Goderdzi Chokheli (1954)

Soviet Film Director

Goderdzi Chokheli was a Georgian novelist scriptwriter and film director. Born in the village Chokhi in then-Soviet Georgia he graduated from Tbilisi State Theatre Institute in 1979 and debuted...

12. Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky (1950)

Soviet Film Director

Aleksandr Kuzmich Ivanov-Sukharevsky is a far right politician in Russia who is the leader of the Peoples National Party.

13. Vladimir Khotinenko (1952)

Soviet Film Director

Vladimir Ivanovich Khotinenko is a Russian actor film director and designer.

14. Karen Shakhnazarov (1952)

Soviet Film Director

Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov PAR is a Soviet and Russian-Armenian filmmaker producer and screenwriter. He became the Director General of the Mosfilm studios in 1998. Shakhnazarov is the son of a...

15. Vladimir Bortko (1946)

Soviet Film Director

Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko PAR born on May 7 1946 in Moscow is a Russian film director screenwriter and producer.

16. Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai (1956)

Soviet Film Director

Andrei Andreyevich Eshpai is a film director screenwriter and producer of Mari descent. He is the son of the composer Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai and the grandson of the composer Yakov...

17. Yuli Gusman (1943)

Soviet Film Director

Yuli Solomonovich Gusman is a Soviet Russian and Azerbaijani film director and actor. He is the founder and CEO of the prestigious Nika Award.

18. Stanislav Govorukhin (1936)

Soviet Film Director

Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin PAR has been one of the most popular Soviet and Russian film directors since the 1960s. His films often featuring detective or adventure plots are commonly...

19. Leonid Filatov (1946)

Soviet Film Director

Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov was a Soviet and Russian actor director poet pamphleteer who shot to fame while a member of troupe at Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov. Despite severe...

20. Eldar Ryazanov (1927)

Soviet Film Director

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies satirizing the daily life of the country are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union. He was named a People's...

21. Alexei Makarov (1972)

Soviet Film Director

Alexei Valer`evich Makarov — is a Russian actor of theatre and cinema. Born 1972 in Omsk in family of actors Valeriy Makarov and Lyubov Polishchuk.