Mikhail Schweitzer
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Born | Moisei Abramovich Schweitzer (1920-03-16)16 March 1920 Perm, RSFSR |
Died | 2 June 2000(2000-06-02) (aged 80) Moscow, Russia |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1949–1993 |
Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (Russian: Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).[1]
Biography
Mikhail Schweitzer graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in the directing class of the Sergei Eisenstein art workshop. He started to work at Mosfilm since 1943. Schweitzer was an assistant director of Man No 217 film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film. When Schweitzer lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studio only with Mikhail Romm's help.[2]
Filmography
- Glorious Path (1949)
- Other People's Relatives (1955)
- Sasha Enters Life (1956)
- Resurrection (1960–1962)
- Time, Forward! (1965)
- The Golden Calf (1968)
- Funny People (1974)
- The Flight of Mr. McKinley (1976)
- Little Tragedies (1979)
- Dead Souls (1984)
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
Awards
- Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1965)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (1977)
- USSR State Prize (1977)
- Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1989)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1990)
- Order of Honour (1995)
- Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2000)
- Nika Award (2000)
References
External links
- Mikhail Schweitzer at IMDb
- Mikhail Schweitzer at kino-teatr.ru (in Russian)
- Mikhail Schweitzer Died. Independent Newspaper (in Russian)
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- 1988: Yuli Raizman
- 1989: Leonid Trauberg
- 1990: Yevgeny Gabrilovich
- 1991: Nikolai Kryuchkov
- 1992: Malik Qayumov
- 1993: Iosif Kheifits
- 1994: Grigory Chukhray
- 1995: Tamara Makarova
- 1996: Valeri Frid
- 1997: Georgiy Zhzhonov
- 1998: Marina Ladynina
- 1999: Mikhail Gluzsky
- 2000: Mikhail Schweitzer
- 2001: Vyacheslav Tikhonov
- 2002: Aleksey Batalov
- 2003: Boris Vasilyev
- 2004: Pyotr Todorovsky
- 2005: Nonna Mordyukova
- 2006: Marlen Khutsiev
- 2007: Eldar Ryazanov
- 2008: Georgiy Daneliya
- 2009: Aleksei German
- 2010: Lyudmila Gurchenko
- 2011: Sergei Yursky
- 2012: Oleg Basilashvili
- 2013: Inna Churikova / Gleb Panfilov
- 2014: Vladimir Zeldin
- 2015: Liya Akhedzhakova
- 2016: Alisa Freindlich
- 2017: Alexander Sokurov
- 2018: Vladimir Etush
- 2019: Otar Iosseliani
- 2021: Rustam Ibragimbekov
- 2023: Aleksandr Shirvindt
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