Yutkevich went on to make a series of fine films about V.I. Lenin, featuring justly famed performances by Maxim Strauch, and earned prizes at Cannes in the mid-1950s for "Skanderbeg" (1954; special jury prize) and "Othello" (1956; best director). He also made some documentaries and, in 1962, devised and executed an animated screen adaptation of Mayakovsky's "The Bath House", which he had previously directed for the stage. Among Yutkevich's published works include a biography of Max Linder, a book on adapting Shakespeare to the screen and the theoretical study, "Film--Truth at 24 Frames per Second" (1974).