Yefim Dzigan Explained

Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (14 December 189831 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).^[1]

Filmography

Director

• First Cornet Streshnev (1928, co-directed with Mikheil Chiaureli)
• The Sailors of Kronstadt (1936)
• If War Comes Tomorrow (1938)
• Jambyl (1952)
• Torrents of Steel (1967)

Awards

• Two Orders of Lenin (1936 – for movie The Sailors of Kronstadt, 1978)
• Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1941) – for movies The Sailors of Kronstadt and If War Comes Tomorrow
• Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1958)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966)
• Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1967, 1973)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1969)

Notes and References

1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2009. US. 978-0-8108-6072-8. 201–202.