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Ivan Turgenev

Writer, Additional Credits
Born November 9, 1818Died September 3, 1883 (64 years)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

Turgenev made his name with 'A Sportsman's Sketches', also known as 'Sketches from a Hunter's Album' or 'Notes of a Hunter', a collection of short stories, based on his observations of peasant life and nature, while hunting in the forests around his mother's estate of Spasskoye. The book is credited with having influenced public opinion in favour of the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Turgenev himself considered the book to be his most important contribution to Russian literature. One of the stories, 'Bezhin Lea' or 'Byezhin Prairie', was to become the basis for Sergei Eisenstein's controversial film Bezhin Meadow (1937).

In the early 1850s, Turgenev wrote several novellas ('The Diary of a Superfluous Man', 'Faust', 'The Lull') expressing the anxieties and hopes of Russians of his generation. During the period of 1853–62 Turgenev wrote some of his finest stories as well as the first four of his novels: 'Rudin' (1856), 'A Nest of the Gentry' (1859), 'On the Eve' (1860) and 'Fathers and Sons' (1862). Fathers and Sons remains Turgenev's most famous novel. The novel examined the conflict between the older generation, reluctant to accept reforms, and the nihilistic youth.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Lover's Prayer

Known For

  • After Death
  • Lover's Prayer
  • Bezhin lug
  • Torrents of Spring
  • Two Women
  • 1er amour
  • A Nest of Gentry
  • First Love
  • Lone Wolf
  • Mu-Mu
  • Ottsy i deti
  • Asya
  • Theatre Macabre
  • Nakanune
  • Nakhlebnik

Filmography

2013
My First Love · as Novel
2008
Fathers and Children (TV Series) · as Novel
2001
1998
Mu-Mu · as Novel
1995
1989
Torrents of Spring · as Novel
1983
Отцы и дети (1983) (TV Series) · as Novel
1978
Lone Wolf · as Screenplay
1978
Asya · as Novel
1977
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Novel
1974
El primer amor · as Novel
1970
First Love · as Novel
1969
A Nest of Gentry · as Novel
1966
1959
Nakanune · as Novel
1959
Ottsy i deti · as Novel
1953
Nakhlebnik · as Screenplay
1950
1915
After Death · as Novel

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