Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev Russian Марлен Мартынович Хуциев 4 October 1925 19 March 2019 was a Georgianborn Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s which include I Am Twenty and July Rain He was named a Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1986 Khutsiev studied film in the directing department at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography VGIK graduating in 1952 He worked as a director at the Odessa film studio from 1952 to 1958 and worked fulltime as a director at Mosfilm from 1965 onward Khutsievs first feature film Spring on Zarechnaya Street 1956 encapsulated the mood of the Khrushchev Thaw and went on to become one of the top boxoffice draws of the 1950s Three years later Khutsiev launched Vasily Shukshin as a new kind of popular hero by starring him in Two Fyodors His two masterpieces of the 1960s however were panned by the authorities forcing Khutsiev into something of an artistic silence In 1978 Khutsiev began teaching film directing master classes at the VGIK His 1991 film Infinitas won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival
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