Vladimir Naumov

Vladimir Naumovich Naumov (Russian: Влади́мир Нау́мович Нау́мов; 6 December 1927 – 29 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and pedagogue. People’s Artist of the USSR (1983).[2]

This article is about the Russian film director and writer. For the Belarusian Interior Minister, see Uladzimir Navumau.
Vladimir Naumov
Born
Vladimir Naumovich Naumov

(1927-12-06)6 December 1927
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died29 November 2021(2021-11-29) (aged 93)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, pedagogue
Notable workTeheran 43 (1981)
TitlePeople's Artist of the USSR (1982)
SpouseNatalya Belokhvostikova[1]

He was a schoolmate of Sergei Parajanov at the Soviet film school.[3] In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.[4] His 1981 film Teheran 43 won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.[5]

Life and career

Naumov, son of cinematographer Naum Naumov-Strazh, studied with Igor Savchenko at the VGIK in 1947–1951 and worked as one of his assistants on the biopic Taras Shevchenko (1951), which he completed with fellow student Aleksandr Alov after Savchenko’s sudden passing. Following the success of that debut, Alov and Naumov began to make films at the Kyiv film studio as a team under the label “Alov and Naumov”.

After 1983 when Alov passed away, Naumov directed several pictures on his own. His first independent picture was The Choice (1987). In 1989, Naumov completed The Law based on a script that had been prohibited more than 20 years earlier. That film and Ten Years without Permission to Correspond (1990) deal with the country's Stalinist past. The script for the 1994 drama White Feast, starring Innokenty Smoktunovsky in his last role, was a collaboration between Naumov and prominent Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra. Another project with Guerra, Nardo's Secret (1997/99), was troubled by never-ending financial difficulties and passed several stages before finally being released in 2001 as Clock without Hands. Like Naumov’s other films of the 1990s, it suffered severely from Russia's cinema industry crisis and was seen by few people.

Naumov has been teaching at VGIK since 1980 and in 1986 he was promoted to the rank of full professor. In 2000, he began to teach at the private Natalya Nesterova University in Moscow.[2]

Vladimir Naumov died on 29 November 2021, at the age of 93.[6]

Filmography
Note: all films before 1987 are co-directed with Aleksandr Alov

References
  1. Владимир Наумов. Творческая биография режиссёра. Night NN — Информационно-Новостной
  2. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 484–485. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. Source: IMDb accessed on 12 August 2007
  4. "10th Moscow International Film Festival (1977)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
  5. "12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
  6. "Lyubimova Expressed Condolences In Connection With The Death Of Vladimir Naumov". 29 November 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-29.


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