Yuri Aleksandrovich (Shayevich) Muzykant (; 7 April 1900 - 3 October 1962), was a Soviet actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Biography
He was in St. Petersburg to Shai Peysakhovich (
russified
Russification (russian: русификация, rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian cultur ...
as Alexander Pavlovich), a Jewish goldsmith who died in 1916. He had a younger brother,
Rafail, who also became a filmmaker. The family lived on Kazanskaya Street, then Razezdey Street. From 1911 to 1919 he studied at a vocational school, then at Military Medical Academy, from which he graduated in 1922. The same year he entered the acting department of the Screen Art Institute in Leningrad, graduating in 1924. Beginning in 1928 he pursued a career as a film actor, but by the 1930s had switched his focus to directing.
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
he participated in the defense of Leningrad and on the Belorussian front, initially with the
People's Militia and later with the regular
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
. Later he worked as a physical therapist for soldiers with lower limb injuries, and as a political officer in the army hospital.
After the war he returned to the Lenfilm studio.
He died in Leningrad in 1962 and was buried at
Preobrazhenskoye Jewish Cemetery Preobrazhensky (masculine), Preobrazhenskaya (feminine), or Preobrazhenskoye (neuter), literally meaning "of the Transfiguration", may refer to:
;People
*Preobrazhensky (surname) (''Preobrazhenskaya'')
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*Preobrazhensky (rural locality) ('' ...
.
Filmography
Actor
* 1934 — ''
Crown Prince of the Republic
Crown Prince of the Republic (russian: Наследный принц Республики) is a 1934 Soviet comedy film directed by Eduard Ioganson.
Plot
The film tells about a couple who live easily and carefree. The wife becomes pregnant and ...
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Director
* 1928 — ''The Mullah's Third Wife'' (Третья жена муллы) (lost film)
* 1937 — ''Za Sovetskiyu Rodinu'' (За Советскую Родину) (also screenwriter)
* 1939 — ''
Arinka'' (Аринка)
* 1952 — ''Razlom'' (Разлом)
* 1957 — ''Vsego dorozhe'' (Всего дороже)
* 1958 — ''Puchina'' (Пучина) (also screenwriter)
* 1959 — ''Dostigaev i drugie'' (Достигаев и другие) (also screenwriter)
* 1960 — ''
Aesop
Aesop ( or ; , ; c. 620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as ''Aesop's Fables''. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales cre ...
'' (also screenwriter)
Screenwriter
* 1929 — ''Bunt babushek'' (Бунт бабушек)
References
External links
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1900 births
1962 deaths
Soviet film directors
Soviet screenwriters
20th-century screenwriters