Sergei Gerasimov
Former member of the experimental Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEX) who turned to directing in the early 1930s. Gerasimov's films eschewed his earlier avant-garde leanings and tended to conform with the prevailing dicta of socialist realism. He is best known for "The Young Guard" (1948) and his epic adaptation of Mikhail Sholokov's "And Quiet Flows the Don" (1957).