Directing · Screenplay · Director · Writer
Born May 23, 1921 · Melitopol, Ukraine, USSR
Active 1953–2001 · Awards: Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Red Star, Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Grigoriy Chukhray was a Ukrainian filmmaker, who gained fame outside the Soviet Union for his films The Forty-First, shown at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, and especially Ballad of a Soldier, which won a special jury prize at the 1960…