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Isaak Semenovich Magiton
Исаак Магитон
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29 August 1922 - 13 December 2009
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Isaac Magiton was born on August 29, 1922 in Simferopol.
He studied at MSU at the Faculty of Geography.
In 1943, the young man was called to the front, serving as an officer in tank reconnaissance. After the end of the war, Magiton entered the VGIK at the director's faculty, but received a diploma only after 15 years because of a long break in studies. In parallel with his training, Isaac works at the Gorky film studio as a second director.
In 1965, Isaac made his film debut as a director. Fantazers"
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Isaac Magiton was born on August 29, 1922 in Simferopol.
He studied at MSU at the Faculty of Geography.
In 1943, the young man was called to the front, serving as an officer in tank reconnaissance.
After the end of the war, Magiton entered the VGIK at the director's faculty, but received a diploma only after 15 years because of a long break in studies. In parallel with his training, Isaac works at the Gorky film studio as a second director.
In 1965, Isaac made his film debut as a director.
Fantazers" . Further, the former front-line soldier continues his activity in the cinema as the second director of the films “Mother”, “When the trees were big”, etc.
Isaac wrote an autobiographical book in which he mentioned that it was his initiative to offer Oleg Borisov and Yuri Nikulin to star in a movie.
In the paintings of I. Magiton, the inhabitants of the country first saw a footballer named Fedor Cherenkov who later became famous. The director himself recalled many years later that in the last scenes of the film “Not a word about football” it was necessary to shoot a match between two children’s teams and a winning goal, which the football player scores with a difficult blow in falling through himself with “scissors”. The director says that such goals in life do not happen often, so mounting this excerpt was not so easy. The role of the forward was played by a bright tentacle boy.
Isaac participated in the creation of the paintings “Central from the Middle Kingdom”, “Leon Garros is looking for a friend”, “Whistling Everyone Up”, “Spring Olympiad or Choir Chief”, “Five Abducted Monks”.
For the last seventeen years of his life Magiton was the head of the jury of the International Children's Film Festival in Artek.
Isaac Magiton is the author of “I Dreamed of a Garden” and “Kinoproba”.
In 2000, he received the title “Honored Artist of the Russian Federation”.