Leo Oskarowitsch Arnstam
Lev Arnshtam even Lew Arnstam ( Russian Лео Оскарович Арнштам ; born January 2 . Jul / 15. January 1905 greg. In Yekaterinoslav , Russian Empire , today: Ukraine ; † 29. December 1979 in Moscow , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet film director and author.
Life
Arnstam studied piano at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1913 to 1923, engaged in concert activities from 1922 and after completing his studies went to Vsevolod Meyerhold , where he directed the musical section of the Meyerhold Theater from 1924 to 1927. At the same time he wrote his own music for the stage. After meeting Grigori Kosinzew and Leonid Trauberg , Arnstam came to the medium of film in 1929, where he initially worked as a sound director. Two years later he tried his hand at co-authoring the screenplay for the film Golden Mountains ( Золотые горы ), which director Sergei Jutkewitsch directed in 1931.
In 1935 he made his debut as a film director in the field of feature film with the strip Freundinnen ( Подруги ), followed by a series of historical strips for Lenfilm , for which he worked until 1942. In 1945 he switched to Mosfilm and made two internationally acclaimed films, Soja and Glinka , which earned him two Stalin prizes. In 1960, together with filmmakers from DEFA, he directed the film Five Days - Five Nights , which addressed the rescue of the Dresden Picture Gallery. In 1968 he made his last film about the Russian revolutionary and activist of the Narodnaya Volya movement, Sofia Perovskaya , with the title The day will come . From then on he no longer appeared artistically.
Filmography
- 1935: girlfriends ( Подруги )
- 1944: Soy ( Зоя )
- 1946: Glinka ( Глинка )
- 1955: Romeo and Juliet ( Ромео и Джульетта )
- 1961: Five days - five nights ( Пять дней - пять ночей )
- 1968: The day will come ( Софья Перовская )
Awards
- 1946 and 1947: Stalin Prize
- 1946: Nomination for the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for Soy
- 1947: Nomination for the " Golden Lion " at the Venice International Film Festival for Glinka
- 1955: Nomination for the " Palme d'Or " at the 8th Cannes International Film Festival for Romeo and Juliet
- 1969: People's Artist of the Russian SFSR
- Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
Web links
- Leo Oskarowitsch Arnstam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography on peoples.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/producer/arnshtam/ (Russian)
- ↑ a b cf. Film mirror No. 7/1980, page 31
- ↑ Leo Arnstam - biography. Retrieved April 12, 2018 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnstam, Leo Oskarowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnstam, Leo; Arnschtam, Lew; Arnstam, Lew; Арнштам, Лео Оскарович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yekaterinoslav , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1979 |
| Place of death | Moscow , Soviet Union |