Alexandra Sorina

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Alexandra Sorina

Alexandra Sorina , Russian Александра Зорина , native Александра Цвикевич / Alexandra Tsvikevich (born September 5, jul. / 17th September  1899 greg. In Baranovichi , Russian Empire , † 31 May 1973 in San Rafael , California, USA ) was a Russian actress .

Life

Born in Belarus, Alexandra Zwikewitsch, the eldest of four siblings, actually wanted to be a concert pianist, but in the middle of World War I, at her mother's request , studied dentistry in St. Petersburg . In 1917 the family fled the turmoil of the revolution to Poland , where the young dentist opened a practice. In Warsaw , the attractive exile was approached by a film studio and asked if she would like to work as a film actress. Thereupon the UFA became aware of the young artist and brought her to Berlin immediately after the end of the war .

In the German film of the 1920s she quickly made a career as Alexandra Sorina and played (in some cases leading) roles alongside renowned colleagues such as Harry Liedtke , Reinhold Schünzel , Emil Jannings , Asta Nielsen , Lionel Barrymore and Conrad Veidt . The latter was her partner in what is probably her most important and best-known film, the Austrian production Orlac's hands , a classic of fantastic cinema. Alexandra Sorina barely succeeded in making the transition to sound film - she was only seen with the part of a lady-in-waiting in Adolf Sportwetten 's Rasputin film - and after marrying the exile Russian film producer Serge Otzoup , she left the film business in 1932.

While her husband went to Spain in 1939 , Alexandra Sorina stayed with her family in Berlin and hired herself as a translator and title author for foreign films. Bombed out in 1943, Alexandra Sorina left the Reich capital and finally found herself in a refugee camp near Kassel in 1945 . In the following months she briefly returned to acting and went on a theater tour through the western zones with a Pushkin play . Another two years later, in 1947, she tried to keep herself and her family afloat with smaller jobs as a field worker and picker in the Rhenish vineyards.

In 1949 she finally moved to the USA and settled in San Francisco . Alexandra Sorina worked there as a nanny, kitchen helper in the hospital and most recently as an operator of a labeling machine.

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SURNAME Sorina, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwikewitsch, Alexandra (maiden name); Зорина, Александра (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION russian actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Baranowitschi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1973
Place of death San Rafael , California, USA