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A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film ' s artistic and dramatic aspects , and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under ___MASK65___ law , the director is viewed as the author of the film . Vladimir Pavlovich Basov ( 28 July 1923  17 September 1987 ) was a Soviet actor , film director and screenwriter . Vladimir Basov was named People ' s Artist of the USSR in 1983 . The Blizzard ( Russian :  ) is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Vladimir Basov , based on the story `` The Blizzard '' from The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin . Russian literature refers to the literature of ___MASK25___ and its émigrés and to the Russian - language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus ', the ___MASK36___ or the ___MASK24___ . The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages , when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed . By the Age of Enlightenment , literature had grown in importance , and from the early 1830s , Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry , prose and drama . Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent : Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore . Prose was flourishing as well . The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol . Then came Ivan Turgenev , who mastered both short stories and novels . Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky soon became internationally renowned . In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist . The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry . The poets most often associated with the " Silver Age " are Konstantin Balmont , Valery Bryusov , Alexander Blok , Anna Akhmatova , Nikolay Gumilyov , Osip Mandelstam , Sergei Yesenin , Vladimir Mayakovsky , Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak . This era produced some first - rate novelists and short - story writers , such as Aleksandr Kuprin , Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin , Leonid Andreyev , Fyodor Sologub , Aleksey Remizov , Yevgeny Zamyatin , Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely . Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet , playwright , and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature . People ' s Artist of the USSR (" Narodný artist SSSR "), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR , was an honorary title granted to citizens of the ___MASK24___ .