Mikhail Schweitzer

{{Short description|Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter}}

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| birth_name = Moisei Abramovich Schweitzer

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|2|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Perm, RSFSR

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| death_place = Moscow, Russia

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1949–1993

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Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer ({{langx|ru|Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер}}, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|place=US|isbn=978-1442268425|pages=688–689}}

Biography

Mikhail Schweitzer graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in the directing class of the Sergei Eisenstein art workshop. He started to work at Mosfilm since 1943. Schweitzer was an assistant director of Man No 217 film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film. When Schweitzer lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studio only with Mikhail Romm's help.{{cite web|title=Sveitser Mikhail Abramovich. Culture and Education. Theater and Cinema|url=http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/kultura_i_obrazovanie/teatr_i_kino/SHVETSER_MIHAIL_ABRAMOVICH.html|publisher=krugosvet.ru|language=Russian|accessdate=October 7, 2009}}

Filmography

Glorious Path (1949)
Other People's Relatives (1955)
Sasha Enters Life (1956)
Resurrection (1960–1962)
Time, Forward! (1965)
The Golden Calf (1968)
Funny People (1974)
The Flight of Mr. McKinley (1976)
Little Tragedies (1979)
Dead Souls (1984)
The Kreutzer Sonata (1987)

Awards

Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1965)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (1977)
USSR State Prize (1977)
Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1989)
People's Artist of the USSR (1990)
Order of Honour (1995)
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (2000)
Nika Award (2000)

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0796073}}
[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/director/sov/27358/bio/ Mikhail Schweitzer at kino-teatr.ru] {{in lang|ru}}
[http://www.ng.ru/events/2000-06-03/2_shveitser.html Mikhail Schweitzer Died. Independent Newspaper] {{in lang|ru}}

Category:1920 births

Category:2000 deaths

Category:20th-century Russian screenwriters

Category:Russian male screenwriters

Category:20th-century Russian male writers

Category:Mass media people from Perm, Russia

Category:Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni

Category:Academic staff of High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors

Category:People's Artists of the RSFSR

Category:People's Artists of the USSR

Category:Recipients of the Nika Award

Category:Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class