Victor Stoloff

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Victor Stoloff (born March 17, 1913 in Tashkent , Russian Empire , † December 6, 2009 in New York City , United States ) was a Russian-born American film director , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Stoloff had studied law at the University of France in the 1930s and attended an École des Beaux-Arts there before coming to the USA. There he initially worked for Warner Bros. and in 1942 produced the 19-minute documentary Little Isles of Freedom on Canada's east coast, which remained unoccupied by German troops during the Second World War , on the French island of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon here. For this work, Stoloff received an Oscar nomination .

Stoloff's following oeuvre attracted far less attention. In 1946 he was the first US filmmaker after the war to make a film ( Sinfonia fatale ) in Italy . Over the next three decades he wrote various minor screenplays, directed a few largely unknown films, including the first major work with Eddie Constantine ( Egypt by Three ) and some early TV productions in Egypt in 1952 , and produced sporadic films for both the cinema and the world the TV. In the 1940s and early 1950s, Victor Stoloff also helped William Dieterle as a dialogue director and technical consultant on some of his productions, including Kismet (with Marlene Dietrich ), love letters, the love of our life and love rush on Capri . He was also involved in the script for his film Vulcano in 1949.

Filmography

  • 1942: Little Isles of Freedom (short film, direction and production)
  • 1946: Sinfonia fatale (screenplay, director)
  • 1949: Vulcano ( Volcano) (script participation)
  • 1953: Egypt by Three (Direction, Production)
  • 1958: She Gods of Shark Reef (screenplay)
  • 1959: La peccatrice del deserto (screenplay)
  • 1960/61: Vilma and King (director of two episodes of the TV series)
  • 1962: Without Moral (Of Love and Desire) (production and story template)
  • 1966: Intimacy (Director)
  • 1971: The 300 Year Weekend (Director, Producer, and Screenplay)
  • 1971: Why (director)
  • 1977: You Don't Play With Agents ( The Washington Affair ) (Direction and Production)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 279

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personal data
SURNAME Stoloff, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-born, American film director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Tashkent , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 2009
Place of death New York City , United States