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Iosif Leonidovich Prut
Иосиф Прут
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18 November 1900 - 16 July 1996
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Joseph Leonidovich Prut was born on November 18, 1900 in Taganrog. Ill as a child with tuberculosis, he was treated in Switzerland, where in 1918 he graduated from Ecole Nouvel, and then entered the Polytechnic Institute in Paris. With the beginning of the world war volunteered to the front, fought in the Russian expeditionary corps. Upon his return to Russia in 1919, Joseph Prut joined the Red Army, fought on the fronts of the Civil War in the First Cavalry Army. Since 1922 he lived in Moscow,
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Joseph Leonidovich Prut was born on November 18, 1900 in Taganrog. Ill as a child with tuberculosis, he was treated in Switzerland, where in 1918 he graduated from Ecole Nouvel, and then entered the Polytechnic Institute in Paris. With the beginning of the world war volunteered to the front, fought in the Russian expeditionary corps. Upon his return to Russia in 1919, Joseph Prut joined the Red Army, fought on the fronts of the Civil War in the First Cavalry Army. Since 1922 he lived in Moscow, engaged in journalism, in 1924 he became a screenwriter of the film studio “Mezhrabprom-Rus”, and in 1928-1932 he worked for “Lenfilm”. Participated in the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the medal "For military merits" Most of Prut's plays narrate about the Red Army and the revolutionary past of the country - "Prince Mstislav Udaloy" (1932), "I love you" (1935), "The Nineteenth Year" ("Member of the Revolutionary Military Council", 1936), historical chronicle "The Road to the South" (1938), "Artillerists" (1939), "The Western Frontier" (1949, together with N. Spanovo). Among the films made according to his scripts, a prominent place is occupied by films of patriotic themes, and among the unconditional masterpieces are such famous paintings as Thirteen (1937) directed and co-writer of the script Mikhail Rom and Secretary of the District Committee (1942) Ivan Pyriev. According to the scripts of Joseph Prout, the films My Love (1940), Wait for Us at Dawn (1964) and others were also staged. Joseph Prut died on July 16, 1996 in Brest.