Biography
Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (Russian: 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). 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.
Filmography
all 20
Director 19
Movies 17
TV Shows 3
Narrator 1
Narrator
To Remember (1993)
TV
Director
Listen, Fellini!.. (1993)
Movie
Director
How Is It Going, Crucians? (1991)
Movie
Director
Kreutzer Sonata (1987)
Movie
Writer / Director
Dead Souls (1984)
TV
Director / Writer
Dead Souls (1984)
Movie
Writer / Director
Little Tragedies (1980)
TV
Director / Writer
Little Tragedies (1980)
Movie
Director
Funny People! (1977)
Movie
Director
Escape of Mr. McKinley (1975)
Movie
Director
The Roundabout (1971)
Movie
Director
The Golden Calf (1968)
Movie
Director
Time, Forward! (1965)
Movie
Director
Resurrection (1960)
Movie
Director
Midshipman Panin (1960)
Movie
Director
The Tight Knot (1957)
Movie
Director
Other People's Relatives (1956)
Movie
Director
The Cutlass (1954)
Movie
Director
Glorious Path (1949)
Movie
Assistant Director
Girl No. 217 (1945)
Movie
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1960
1975
1977
1993
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1920-02-16
Deathday2000-06-02 (80 years old)
Birth PlacePerm, Russia
SiblingsVictoria Schweizer
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Russia
Also Known AsMikhail Shvejtсer, Mikhail Shveytcer, Михаил Швейцер, Moisey Abramovich Schweitzer, Mikhail Schweitzer, Mikhail Shvejtser
AwardsOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR, Order of Honour, USSR State Prize, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR
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