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Aleksandr Gintsburg
Aleksandr Gintsburg (1 March 1907 – 10 March 1972) was a Soviet cameraman and film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p .... He graduated from the Leningrad Phototechnicum in 1927 and from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1934. Selected filmography * ''Bolnye nervy'' (1929) * ''Transport of Fire'' (1930) * ''Zagovor myortvyh'' (1930) * ''Son of the Land'' (1931) * ''Shame'' (1932) * ''Peasants'' (1935) * ''Zhenitba Zhana Knukke'' (1935) * ''City of Youth'' (1938) * ''The Great Beginning'' (1939) * ''Shestdesyat dney'' (1940) * ''Wings of Victory'' (1941) * ''Yego zovut Sukhe-Bator'' (1942) * '' Two Soldiers'' (1943) * ''Eto bylo v Donbasse'' (1949) * ''Private Aleksandr Matrosov'' (1949) * ''The Secret Brigade'' (1949) * '' Who Laughs Last'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahachow
Rahachow or Rahačoŭ ( be, Рагачо́ў, ; russian: Рогачёв, Rogachyov, also transliterated Rogachev; pl, Rohaczów; yi, ראגאטשאוו, ''Rogatshov'', ) is a town in the Gomel Region of Belarus. It is center of Rahachow District. Rahachow is located at , between the Drut and Dnieper rivers. The population is 34,727 (2004 estimate). The town is first mentioned in 1142 in Russian chronicles. From the late thirteenth century it was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772 the Rahačoŭ District was annexed by the Russian Empire. On 16 July 1863 the local landowner Tomasz Hryniewicz was executed here by a Russian firing squad for leading the Rahačoŭ detachment of Polish insurgents. During World War II, Rahačoŭ was occupied by the German Army from 2 July 1941 to 13 July 1941, and again from 14 August 1941 to 24 February 1944. The notable Rabbi, Yosef Rosen (1858–1936), known as the Rogatshover Gaon ("The Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leningrad Phototechnicum
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
