Aleksandr Gintsburg (1 March 1907 – 10 March 1972) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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'' (1954) * ''Cinderella'' (1960) * '' The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin'' (1965)

Honours and awards

* Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1969) * Honored Art Worker of the Byelorussian SSR (1955)

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1907 births 1972 deaths Soviet film directors People from Rahachow {{USSR-film-director-stub