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Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (; Kiev , – Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg , 11 May 1973 ) was a Soviet Russia n Film Director .

He studied in the Imperial Academy Of Arts and started making films in 1921 . His silent features, including '' The Overcoat '' (1926) and ''New Babylon'' (1929), had a ring of Expressionism . Kozintsev is most renowned by his adaptations of William Shakespeare ( King Lear and Hamlet ) and Miguel De Cervantes ( Don Quixote ).