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Victor Benediktovich Nord-Levin (Hebrew: ויקטור בנדיקטוביץ׳ נורד־לוין, Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Бенеди́ктович Норд-Ле́він, born 1945 in Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) is an Israeli-American independent filmmaker best known for his 1977 Israeli directorial debut '' The Garden'' that represented Israel at the
Nord, son of actress Evgeniya Mikhailovna Rostova-Nord ''née'' Goldenberg and notable Soviet theatre director and actor , immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union in April 1973 after graduating with honors in 1971 from , All-Union State Institute of Cinematography] also known as the Moscow Film School]. He started working as assistant on film stages in Moscow while only sixteen and decided to immigrate to Israel after encountering difficulties related to political censorship and antisemitism with directing his first own films in the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, he managed to work briefly as assistant director on
1977
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, the 1977 San Francisco International Film Festival, and the 1978 Toronto Waterfront International Film Festival.
Biography
Nord, son of actress Evgeniya Mikhailovna Rostova-Nord ''née'' Goldenberg and notable Soviet theatre director and actor , immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union in April 1973 after graduating with honors in 1971 from , All-Union State Institute of Cinematography] also known as the Moscow Film School]. He started working as assistant on film stages in Moscow while only sixteen and decided to immigrate to Israel after encountering difficulties related to political censorship and antisemitism with directing his first own films in the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, he managed to work briefly as assistant director on Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...
’s, 1970 film ''Waterloo
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* Battle of Waterloo, a battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat
* Waterloo, Belgium, where the battle took place.
Waterloo may also refer to:
Other places
Antarctica
*King George Island (S ...
'', and for one year on Aleksei Yuryevich German’s 1971 film '' Trial on the Road''. Since 1982 he resides in New York, New York.. More recently he worked as editor on "The Russians Are Here"''Frontline
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Books and publications
* ''Front Lines'' (novel), young adult historical novel by American author Michael Grant
* ''Frontlines ...
''. In 1984 (the show ''Captive in El Salvador'' he edited was awarded an Emmy Award
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); as director of dialogue he worked on ''The Comrades'', 12-episode series (WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded on-air as GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship property of the WGBH Educational Foundation, which also owns Boston's sec ...
-Boston). Nord is also the author of nine screenplays (2004–2018) written especially for television series. He is married to Elena S. Nord-Levin ''née'' Shevelyov and is father to Benny Nord-Levin (born 2001) and David Nord-Levin (born 2007).
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