Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (, 16 February 1920,

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– 2 June 2000,

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) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.

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(1990).

Biography

Mikhail Schweitzer graduated from the

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in the directing class of the

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art workshop. He started to work at

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since 1943. Schweitzer was an assistant director of ''Man No 217'' film production in 1944.

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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

* '' Glorious Path'' (1949) * ''

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'' (1955) * '' Sasha Enters Life'' (1956) *''

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'' (1960–1962) * '' Time, Forward!'' (1965) * '' The Golden Calf'' (1968) * ''

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'' (1974) * '' The Flight of Mr. McKinley'' (1976) * '' Little Tragedies'' (1979) * ''

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'' (1984) * '' The Kreutzer Sonata'' (1987)

Awards

* Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1965) *

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(1977) *

USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize () was one of the Soviet Union’s highest civilian honours, awarded from its establishment in September 1966 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. It recognised outstanding contributions in the fields of science, mathem ...

(1977) *

Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR The Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR was an annual State Prize established by the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) in 1965. Three Vasilyev Brothers prizes were awarded annually from 1966 unti ...

(1989) *

(1990) * Order of Honour (1995) *

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, 3rd class (2000) *

Nika Award The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. In 2022 nominees were announced, b ...

(2000)

References

External links

*
Mikhail Schweitzer at kino-teatr.ru

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