Vladimir Petrovich Vajnshtok (russian: Владимир Петрович Вайншток; 2 March 1908 – 18 October 1978) was a Soviet

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 ...

and, under the name Vladimir Vladimirov,

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

Selected filmography

Director

* ''Rubicon (Рубикон)'' (1931) * ''Storm (Ураган)'' (1932) * ''

The Children of Captain Grant ''In Search of the Castaways'' (french: Les Enfants du capitaine Grant, lit=The Children of Captain Grant) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of ill ...

(Дети капитана Гранта)'' (1936) * ''

Treasure Island ''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...

(Остров сокровищ)'' (1938) * ''

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(Всадник без головы)'' (1973) * '' Armed and Dangerous (Вооружен и очень опасен)'' (1977)

Screenwriter

* ''Rubicon (Рубикон)'' (1931) * ''

(Остров сокровищ)'' (1938) * ''

Dead Season ''Dead Season'' (russian: Мёртвый сезон, translit. Myortvyy sezon) is a 1968 Soviet spy film directed by Savva Kulish based on a screenplay by Aleksandr Shlepyanov and Vladimir Vajnshtok and featuring Donatas Banionis and Rolan ...

'' (1968) * ''

(Всадник без головы)'' (1973) * '' Armed and Dangerous (Вооружен и очень опасен)'' (1977) * ''

Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky ''Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky'' (russian: Двадцать шесть дней из жизни Достоевского, Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo) is a 1981 Soviet biographical film about writer Fyodor Dostoevs ...

(Двадцать шесть дней из жизни Достоевского)'' (1980)

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* Soviet film directors 1908 births 1987 deaths Soviet screenwriters Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery 20th-century screenwriters {{USSR-film-director-stub