CAMERAMAN DEAD
Sergei Urusevsky, the Russian film cameraman who won international acclaim for his work on “The Cranes are Flying,” has died in Moscow at the age of 65. The film, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, won for Urusevsky the 1957 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for camera work.
A later film, “I am Cuba," also directed by Kalatozov, which was shot entirely with a handheld camera, won him an award in Italy in 1965.
A Communist Party mefhber, Urusevsky went into films in 1935 and during the Second World War worked at the front to make a number of documentary pictures. His pictorial and highly expressive style is said by Soviet critics to have opened up new possibilities for camera technique. In 1969 he made his debut as a director with a film called “The Ambler’s Race,” based on a story by the Kirgizian writer. Chingiz Aitmatov.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33741, 14 January 1975, Page 4
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