Ephraim Sevela

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Efraim Sevela ( Russian Эфраим Севела , born as Yefim Jewelewitsch Drabkin - Russian Ефим Евелевич Драбкин , born March 8, 1928 in Bobrujsk , Mogilev Oblast , Belarusian SSR ; † August 18, 2010 in Moscow , Russian SSR ) was a Soviet writer Screenwriter, director and film producer who lived in Israel, the USA and again in Russia after emigrating from the Soviet Union.

Life

Efraim Sevela was the son of Jewish parents. His father was an officer. In 1941 his family was evacuated to the Soviet hinterland as the front line of World War II approached . Drabkin himself became an anti-tank rifleman ( Syn polka ) as a youth and came to Germany at the end of the war with the Red Army. After the end of the war he finished school and studied at the Belarusian State University in Minsk . From 1957 he wrote scripts, including for several patriotic films of the Soviet Union under the pseudonym Jefim Sevela ( Russian Ефим Севела ).

He married the actress Julia geb. Gendelstein (* 1934), daughter of the director Albert Gendelstein and stepdaughter of the singer Edith Utjossowa. The marriage resulted in a daughter (* 1959) and a son (* 1971).

In the late 1960s, Sevela became a member of the Jewish dissidents in the Soviet Union and took part in the occupation of a Soviet government building in Moscow in 1971 with the demand that Soviet Jews be allowed to travel to Israel. He was then allowed to travel to Israel .

According to his own statements, when he was 45 he fought in the Yom Kippur War , where he was wounded. In 1977 he moved from Israel to the USA . Efraim Sewela then worked in London , Paris and West Berlin , among others .

In 1990 Efraim Sevela returned to the USSR , where he successfully filmed several of his scripts.

Filmography

Scripts:

  • 1957: Наши соседи
  • 1959: Annuschka (Аннушка)
  • 1967: Крепкий орешек
  • 1968: Годен к нестроевой

Director:

  • 1986: The Lullaby (Kołysanka)
  • 1990: The parrot that spoke Yiddish (Попугай, говорящий на идиш)
  • 1992: Noah's Ark (Ноев ковчег) - also an actor and producer
  • 1993: The Charity Ball (Благотворительный бал) - also a producer
  • 1996: White Dunes (Белые дюны)

Novels

  • Monja Zazkes
  • We Were Not Like Other People .
  • Farewell, Israel!
  • Moische, you go ahead (1979)
  • Stop the plane, I'm getting out (1980)
  • The Parrot Who Could Yiddish (Short Stories, 1982)
  • Men's Conversations in a Russian Sauna (1983)
  • The wisdom tooth (1984)

(Publication dates refer to the German translation)

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personal data
SURNAME Sevela, Ephraim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drabkin, Jefim Jewelewitsch (maiden name); Севела, Эфраим (Russian); Драбкин, Ефим Евелевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer, screenwriter, director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Bobruysk , Mogilev Oblast , Belarusian SSR
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2010
Place of death Moscow , Russia