Herbert Rappaport

Herbert Rappaport , also Gerbert Morizewitsch Rappaport ( Russian: Герберт Морицевич Раппапорт ; born July 7, 1908 in Vienna ; † September 5, 1983 in Leningrad ; born Herbert Jacob Otto Rappaport ) was an Austro-Soviet film director .

Life

The son of the psychoanalyst Moritz Rappaport was already involved in 1925 as an assistant director on the shooting of Georg Wilhelm Pabst's classic Die joudlose Gasse , which was made in Vienna . He then attended the film school until 1927 and studied law at the University of Vienna from 1927 to 1928 .

In 1928 he went to Berlin , worked for Nero-Film AG and commuted between Berlin and Paris . In Berlin, Rappaport was again taken over by Pabst as assistant director, among other things in the Eva scandal , Kameradschaft , Die Dreigroschenoper , Die Herrin von Atlantis and in the autumn of 1932 in France with Don Quichotte .

Herbert Rappaport's grave in the family vault in Vienna's central cemetery

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he stayed in Italy and from 1934 to 1936 in Hollywood at the side of Pabst. There, he invited Boris Schumjazki one, the head of the Soviet film committee, to the Soviet Union in order for the Lenfilm the anti-Nazi drama professor Mamlock of Friedrich Wolf to film.

After the success of this work, staged together with Adolf Minkin, Rappaport stayed in the Soviet Union and became one of the most important directors of the Stalin era . He made very different films, including comedies, music films, perseverance war films, ballet productions, crime novels, heroic biographies and melodramas .

After the war, the winner of the Stalin Prize lived in Riga . In later years he received only a few more important directing commissions. The circumstances of his death are not fully understood. Since he is listed as a Soviet director in Soviet reference books, he was presumably in possession of Soviet citizenship.

Herbert Rappaport rests in the old Israelite section of the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

• 1938: Professor Mamlock ( Профессор Мамлок ; Professor Mamlok )
• 1939: The Guest ( Gost )
• 1940: a musical story ( Musykalnaja istorija )
• 1941: A hundred for one ( Sto sa odnogo )
• 1943: The air coach ( Wosduschny iswostschik )
• 1947: Away from life ( Elu tsitadellis )
• 1949: The first SOS ( Aleksander Popow )
• 1951: Light over Kordii ( Valgus Koordis )
• 1953: A Football Fan's Dream ( Son Bolelschtschika )
• 1961: How much the thread turns ( Kak werewotschka ni vjetsja )
• 1963: Cheremushki
• 1966: Two tickets for the afternoon performance ( Dwa bileta na dnewnoi seans )
• 1971: Black rusks ( Tschornyje suchari ; also screenplay)
• 1972: Krug (also screenplay)
• 1976: That's none of my business ( Menja eto ne kassajetsja ; also script)

literature

• Michael Omasta, Barbara Wurm (ed.): Director: Rappaport: A Soviet filmmaker from Vienna , SYNEMA Society for Film and Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-901644-26-9 .

Remarks

1. ↑ Place of death Leningrad according to http://www.kontakt.erstegroup.net/events/2008-04_Filmmuseum+Wien_Rappaport/de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The place of death in Moscow, according to Kay Less: The film's great lexicon of people .  
2. ^ According to Herbert Rappaport, Olaf Möller, Brigitte Mayr: Director: Rappaport: A Soviet filmmaker from Vienna . Ed .: Michael Omasta, Barbara Wurm. SYNEMA Society for Film and Media, 2008, ISBN 978-3-901644-26-9 .
3. ↑ Jasmin Arnold: The revolution eats its children . Tectum, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8288-8479-3 , pp. 81 .

Web links and sources

• Herbert Rappaport in the Internet Movie Database (English)