Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Soviet film director (1906–1982)

The Gadfly (1955)
The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)

AwardsStalin Prize (1950,1951)

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, Russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director.^[1]^[2] He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller.^[3] His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.^[4]

Filmography

The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.
Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
Kotovsky (1942)
Naval Battalion (1944)
For Those Who Are at Sea (1947)
A Girl with a Guitar (1948)
They Have a Motherland (1949)
Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)
Aušra prie Nemuno (1953)
The Gadfly (1955)
A Girl with Guitar (1958)
Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya)^[5] (Adaptation of a book by Kurt Sandner [de])
Far in the West (1968)
50 to 50 (1972)
Without the Right to Mistake (1974)
The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)
Farewell tour Artist (1979)

References

^ Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova (2019). The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. Bloomsbury. p. 1941. ISBN 978-1838718497.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ H.T.S. (December 10, 1934). "Czar Paul on Screen Again". The New York Times.
^ Rollberg, Peter (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 179, 238, 243. ISBN 9781442268425.
^ Marina Murzina (17 January 2015). "Дело в "шляпке". Легендарному фильму "Соломенная шляпка" - 40 лет". Argumenty i Fakty.
^ "Noch bez miloserdiya (1962) - IMDb". IMDb.