title: Yefim Dzigan
text: # Yefim Dzigan
  
  Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (Russian: Ефим Львович Дзиган; 14 December 1898 – 31 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
  
  ## Filmography
  
  ### Director
  
  * First Cornet Streshnev (1928, co-directed with Mikheil Chiaureli)
  * The Sailors of Kronstadt (1936)
  * If War Comes Tomorrow (1938)
  * Jambyl (1952)
  * Torrents of Steel (1967)
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Two Orders of Lenin (1936 – for movie The Sailors of Kronstadt, 1978)
  * Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1941) – for movies The Sailors of Kronstadt and If War Comes Tomorrow
  * Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1958)
  * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1966)
  * Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1967, 1973)
  * People's Artist of the USSR (1969)
  