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Name
  
Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Role
  
Filmmaker


Died
  
March 21, 1982, Russia

Children
  
Leonid Kvinikhidze

Movies
  
The Gadfly, Lieutenant Kije, Men of the Sea

Similar People
  
Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Simonov, Ethel Lilian Voynich, Yury Tynyanov, Mikhail Yanshin

Поручик Киже 1934 / Lieutenant Kizhe


Aleksandr Faintsimmer (Russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze is also a film director.

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Filmography

  • Proshchalnaya gastrol' 'Artista' (1979)
  • The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (Traktir na Pyatnitskoy) (1978)
  • Bez prava na oshibku (1974)
  • Pyatdesyat na pyatdesyat (1972)
  • Daleko na zapade (1968)
  • Devushka s gitaroy (1958)
  • The Gadfly (Ovod) (1955)
  • U nikh yest rodina (They Have a Motherland) (1950)
  • The Secret Brigade (Konstantin Zaslonov) (1949)
  • Za tekh kto v more (For Those Who Are at Sea) (1947)
  • Morskoy batalion (1944)
  • Kotovskiy (1943)
  • Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
  • The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.

    • References

    Aleksandr Faintsimmer Wikipedia
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