About Ilya Averbakh
Lived 1934 – 1986 (aged 51). Ilya Averbakh was a Russian film director and screenwriter.
Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh (; July 28, 1934, in Leningrad – January 11, 1986, in Moscow) was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, Monologue, was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Averbakh was awarded the title Honoured Worker of the Arts Industry of the RSFSR in 1976. His wife, screenwriter Natalia Riazantseva, wrote the scripts for several of his films. In 2003, Andrei Kravchuk made a documentary about the director.
Filmography Private Life of Kuzyayev Valentin (1967) Degree of Risk (1968) Drama from Ancient Life (1971) Monologue (1972) Other People's Letters (1976) A Declaration of Love (1977) The Voice (1982)
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Soviet film director, screenwriter (1934-1986)
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Ilya Averbakh was born on 28 July 1934 in Saint Petersburg.
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Ilya Averbakh died on 11 January 1986 in Saint Petersburg, Moscow.
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Ilya Averbakh was a film director and screenwriter.
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Ilya Averbakh was Russian.
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