Alexei Mikhailovich Granovsky

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Alexei Michailowitsch Granowski , Russian Алексей Михайлович Грановский , born Abraham Ozark , also Alexander Granowski , in France Alexis Granowsky (born September 27 and October 11, 1890 in Moscow , Russian Empire ; † March 11, 1937 in Paris , France ) was a Russian theater and film director.

Life

Granowski was born as Abraham Ozark into an upper-class Jewish family. In 1911 he graduated from a theater school in St. Petersburg , followed by a two-year study of dramatic arts at the Munich Theater Academy. In Munich he worked with Max Reinhardt , with whom he temporarily did an internship and who had a strong influence on his later work.

In 1914 he made his directorial debut at a theater in Riga , followed by various positions at Russian stages. After completing military service, Granowski went to Sweden in 1917 , where he began studying film, specializing in directing.

Two years later, Granowski founded the Jewish Theater Studio in Petrograd in 1919 and moved it to Moscow as the State Jewish Chamber Theater in 1920 , where he then worked as director and artistic director. At his venue, where pieces were performed in Yiddish , mostly young, talented actors such as the renowned Jewish actor Solomon Michoels played . In 1925 his theater was renamed the State Jewish Theater "GOSET", and he appeared as a director in its productions.

In 1925 he made his first film, the comedy Jüdisches Glück based on a material by Scholem Alejchem , with the participation of Isaak Babel and with Solomon Michoels in the lead role. Granowski did not return to the Soviet Union after a tour to Western Europe in 1928/29.

Instead, he worked on some revues for the Deutsche Theater in Berlin , directed by Max Reinhardt . In Germany in 1931 he made two early sound films that experimented with the possibilities of the new medium, Das Lied vom Leben and The Cases of Mr. OF Leaning on the idea of ​​the absolute film , the cinematic language is the focus of these films, which is due to the contemporary professional world their artistic excess and symbolic exaggerations were accepted with reservation.

Then Granowski went to France, where Taras Bulba was created under his direction in 1935 .

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 210.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b cf. German Film Institute ( Memento from April 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )