Biography

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fetin (Russian: Владимир Александрович Фетин; 14 October 1925 — 20 August 1981) was a Soviet film director. He was named Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1975. Vladimir Fetin was born in Moscow into a noble Russian-German Fetting family which traced its history to Pyotr Ivanovich Fetting (born Pierre Friedrich de Fetting), a military engineer who moved to the Russian Empire from Berlin in 1812. In 1943 he was enlisted in the Red Army and fought in the first reserve artillery corps. He changed several professions after the war, then entered the director's faculty at VGIK, a workshop led by Sergei Gerasimov which he finished in 1959.