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Mihail Abramovich Shveycer
Михаил Швейцер
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16 February 1920 - 2 June 2000
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Mikhail Abramovich Schweitzer (real name Moses) was born in Penza on February 16, 1920. When he was five years old, his family moved to Moscow. After school, Mikhail studied at VGIK at the director's faculty. After graduation, he briefly worked as an assistant director of TsOKS. Schweitzer also worked at the Mosfilm film studio and at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. His first independent films are films about the life of the village, about difficult moments in history. Alien relatives (1956) and Tight
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Mikhail Abramovich Schweitzer (real name Moses) was born in Penza on February 16, 1920. When he was five years old, his family moved to Moscow. After school, Mikhail studied at VGIK at the director's faculty. After graduation, he briefly worked as an assistant director of TsOKS. Schweitzer also worked at the Mosfilm film studio and at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. His first independent films are films about the life of the village, about difficult moments in history.
Alien relatives (1956) and
Tight knot 1957. The last tape was sharply condemned and was released on the screens remade and under a different name – “Sasha enters life”. Only in 1988, Schweitzer managed to restore the original version of the picture.
In 1960, his next film, Midshipman Panin, was released. Thanks to the success of this tape, Schweitzer took his place in the first ranks of Soviet film directors. A talented director could lay in any pathos work an accurate vision of the era depicted. His films "Cortic,"
"Funny People" "Resurrection", "Time, Forward!", "Golden Calf", "Carousel", "The Flight of Mr. McKinley", "Little Tragedies", "Dead Souls", "Kreutzer Sonata", "Cats in the Rain" are familiar and loved by everyone since childhood.
In the 90s began a difficult time in Russian cinema. Schweitzer experienced significant difficulties in implementing his plans and numerous projects. At that time, he was only able to make two films: How Do You Live, Karasi? in 1992.
"Listen, Fellini!" The main and only role was played by the brilliant Lyudmila Gurchenko. Mikhail Schweitzer is the winner of numerous awards (State, Kinotavr, Golden Aries, Nika, as well as the Presidential Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of art and literature). In 1965 he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, in 1977 Schweitzer became People's Artist of the RSFSR, and in 1990 for great merits in the development of film art he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
The talented film director Mikhail Schweitzer died on June 2, 2000. He is buried in Moscow at the Vostryakov cemetery.