Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), known in the

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as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an

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screenwriter and film director. Rappaport was born in 1908 in

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, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now

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, Ukraine).Directed by Rappaport A Soviet filmmaker from Vienna
/ref> From 1927 to 1929 he studied law at

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. Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and the United States from 1928 onward. During the early 1930s he worked as an assistant to

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. In 1936 he was officially invited to the Soviet Union to internationalize the

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which he accepted and spent the following 40 years working as a filmmaker there. Among Rappaport's best known films is an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's ''Cheryomushki'' ("Cherry Town") (1963). In 2008 the first worksho

was initiated outside Russia by the Austrian Filmmuseum and SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, showing about half of his films.

Filmography

* ''Professor Mamlok (Профессор Мамлок) / Professor Mamlock (1938 film), Professor Mamlock'' (1938); with Adolf Minkin * ''Gost (Гость) / A Guest'' (1939); with Adolf Minkin * ''Muzykalnaya istoriya (Музыкальная история) / Musical Story'' (1940); with Aleksandr Ivanovsky * ''Vozdushnyy izvozchik (Воздушный извозчик) / Taxi to Heaven'' (1943) * ''Elu tsitadellis / Life in the Citadel'' (1947) * ''Aleksandr Popov (Александр Попов) / Alexander Popov'' (1949); with

Viktor Eisymont Viktor Vladislavovich Eisymont (russian: Виктор Владиславович Эйсымонт, 20 December 1904 – 31 January 1964) was a Soviet film director. He was a three-time recipient of the Stalin Prize, in 1942, 1947, and 1951. ...

* ''Valgus Koordis / Light in Koordi'' (1951) * ''Mastera russkogo baleta (Мастера русского балета) / Stars of the Russian Ballet'' (1953) * ''Andruse õnn / Andrus' Happiness'' (1955) * ''Poddubenskiye chastushki (Поддубенские частушки)'' (1957) * ''Vihmas ja päikeses / Rain or Shine'' (1960) * ''Cheryomushki (Черемушки) / Cherry Town'' (1962) * ''Dva bileta na dnevnoy seans (Два билета на дневной сеанс) /

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show ''Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show'' (russian: Два билета на дневной сеанс) is a 1966 Soviet crime film directed by Gerbert Rappaport. Plot The film tells about the Komsomol member Alyoshin, who goes to work in Depar ...

'' (1967) * ''Chyornye sukhari (Черные сухари) / Black Dried Crust'' (1972) * ''Krug (Круг) / Circle'' (1972) * ''Serzhant militsii (Сержант милиции) / Sergeant of Militia'' (1974) * ''Menya eto ne kasaetsya (Меня это не касается) / It's Not My Business'' (1976)

References

External links

* 1908 births 1983 deaths Austrian emigrants to the Soviet Union Austrian screenwriters Austrian Jews Film people from Vienna Soviet film directors Soviet screenwriters Stalin Prize winners Austrian male screenwriters {{USSR-film-director-stub