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Semyon Aranovich
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23 July 1934 - 8 September 1996
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Semyon Davidovich Aranovich was born on July 23, 1923 at the Derazhnya station of Khmelnytsky region (Ukraine). In 1955 he graduated from the Naval Aviation Mine and Torpedo School, in 1955-1956 he served as a navigator of naval aviation. In 1965 he graduated from the directorial faculty of VGIK, where he studied in the documentary directing workshop of Roman Carmen. In 1964-1970, Semyon Aranovich worked at the film studios "Lenikinochronika" and "Lennauchfilm", since 1971 - at the film studio "Lenfilm".
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Semyon Davidovich Aranovich was born on July 23, 1923 at the Derazhnya station of Khmelnytsky region (Ukraine). In 1955 he graduated from the Naval Aviation Mine and Torpedo School, in 1955-1956 he served as a navigator of naval aviation. In 1965 he graduated from the directorial faculty of VGIK, where he studied in the documentary directing workshop of Roman Carmen. In 1964-1970, Semyon Aranovich worked at the film studios "Lenikinochronika" and "Lennauchfilm", since 1971 - at the film studio "Lenfilm". As a documentary director, he received recognition thanks to the historical and documentary films “Time that is always with us” and “Gorky’s Friend – Andreev”; the last film was awarded in 1967 the main prize of the international film festival in Leipzig. In the feature film, the director made his debut in 1971 with the television film “The Red Diplomat” (about Leonid Krasin). Among his later television films, the most popular were: "Rafferty" (1980) - an adaptation of L. White's novel about a trade union figure, "Confrontation" based on the detective novel by Yulian Semenov. One of the best films of Semyon Aranovich was the military drama Torpedo Ships (1983), shot by him based on the prose of Y. Herman.
At the turn of the 1990s, he again turned to documentary - "The Personal Case of Anna Akhmatova" (1989), "I Served in the Guard of Stalin, or the Experience of Documentary Mythology" (1989), "The Great Concert of Peoples, or the Breath of Chein-Stokes" (1991). The biggest success of Semyon Aranovich was the ironic melodrama “The Year of the Dog” (1994), in which the main roles were performed by Inna Churikova and Igor Sklyar. At the Berlin Film Festival, the film won the Silver Bear prize. Semyon Aranovich died in September 1996 in Germany, where he moved to permanent residence.