Sofiya Zinovevna Magarill (Russian - Со́фья Зино́вьевна Магари́лл; (5 April 1900 – 15 October 1943,

Alma-Ata Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of t ...

) was a Soviet film actress.

Life

In 1925 she graduated from the A. Morozov theatre studio, after studying in FEKS workshops led by

Grigori Kozintsev Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (russian: link=no, Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 ...

and

Leonid Trauberg Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the S ...

- she had married Kozintsev in 1923 and remained his wife until her death. Her first film was in 1924 and she also trained under

Boris Sohn Boris Vulfovich Sohn (russian: Борис Вульфович Зон; 10 5January 1898, Syzran — 10 June 1966, Leningrad) was a Soviet stage actor, theatre director and theatre educator. He was made an Honored Artist of the RSFSR Honored Artis ...

at the

Lenfilm Lenfilm (russian: link=no, Ленфильм) is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name). It is a corporation with its stakes shared betwee ...

acting school between 1933 and 1936. She worked at the Leningrad New Theatre and from 1941 in Alma-Ata. She died of

typhoid fever Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a disease caused by '' Salmonella'' serotype Typhi bacteria. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several ...

during the evacuation of Alma-Ata, which she had caught whilst nursing

Sergei Yermolinsky Sergei Aleksandrovich Yermolinsky (; 14 December 1900, Vilnius – 18 February 1984, Moscow) was a Soviet screenwriter and dramatist. Life A graduate of the Kaluga Gymnasium (Unified Labor School), he organized a theatre school in Kaluga. He stud ...

Filmography

The Club of the Big Deed ''The Club of the Big Deed'' or ''The Union of a Great Cause'' (russian: Союз Великого дела, S.V.D. - Soyuz velikogo dela) is a 1927 Soviet silent historical drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg about 1 ...

(1927) * Kastus Kalinovskiy (1928) *

The New Babylon ''The New Babylon'' (russian: Новый Вавилон, Novyy Vavilon alt. title: russian: Штурм неба, Shturm neba) is a 1929 silent historical drama film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film deals w ...

(1929) *

Cities and Years Cities and Years (russian: Города и годы) is a 1930 Soviet silent drama film directed by Yevgeni Chervyakov. Plot The film is based on the eponymous novel by Konstantin Fedin. Cast * Bernhard Goetzke as Col. von Schonau * Ivan C ...

(1930) *

Lieutenant Kijé Lieutenant Kijé or Kizhe (russian: Пору́чик Киже́, translit. Poruchik Kizhe), originally Kizh (Киж), is a fictional character in an anecdote about the reign of Emperor Paul I of Russia, in which the cover up of a transcript ...

(1934) *

Masquerade Masquerade or Masquerader may refer to: Events * Masquerade ball, a costumed dance event * Masquerade ceremony, a rite or cultural event in many parts of the world, especially the Caribbean and Africa * Masqueraders, the performers in the West ...

(1941) *

The Murderers are Coming ''The Murderers are Coming'' (russian: Убийцы выходят на дорогу, ''Ubiytsi vikhodyat na dorogu'') is a 1942 Soviet war film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Yuri Tarich based on the 1938 play ''Fear and Misery of the Third R ...

(1942)

External links

*http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2013/20/5193bf3fb958b/ Soviet film actresses 1900 births 1943 deaths Deaths from typhoid fever {{USSR-actor-stub