Mikhail Schweitzer
Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (16 February 1920 – 2 June 2000) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
Also recorded as Mikhail Abramovich Shveytser
Mikhail Schweitzer
- Name
- Mikhail Schweitzer
- Birth Name
- Moisei Abramovich Schweitzer
- Born
- 16 February 1920
- Birthplace
- Perm, RSFSR
- Died
- 2 June 2000
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russia
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Honours
- USSR State Prize · Order of Honour · People's Artist of the USSR · Order For Merit to the Fatherland and 3rd class · Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR · People's Artist of the RSFSR
- Languages
- Russian
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Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (16 February 1920 – 2 June 2000) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
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• Name — Mikhail Schweitzer • Native Name — Михаил Швейцер • Birth Name — Moisei Abramovich Schweitzer • Born — 16 February 1920 • Birthplace — Perm, RSFSR • Died — 2 June 2000 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 1949–1993
Biography
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.
Filmography
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)
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1920
Mikhail Schweitzer was born on 16 February 1920.
2000
Mikhail Schweitzer died on 2 June 2000.
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Moscow.
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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)
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- 1.- établissement d'enseignement supérieur de Moscou fondé en 1931 et fusionné avec l'Université d'État de Moscou en 1941.
- 2.Lien archive ru Майя Пешкова [Maïa Pechkova] О кинорежиссере и сценаристе Михаиле Швейцере вспоминает его сестра литературовед Виктория Швейцер traduction La sœur du réalisateur et scénariste Mikhail Shveitser, la spécialiste de littérature Victoria Shveitser, se souvient de sa mémoire http://echo.msk.ru/programs/time/528382-echo/ 20 juillet 2008 Écho de Moscou horodatage 20160314142408 .
- 3.Alexandra Gouzeva. Les cinq meilleures adaptations cinématographiques soviétiques d'œuvres d'Alexandre Pouchkine. Fenêtre sur le Russie. 10 septembre 2024.
- 4.Андрея Плахова [Andreï Plakhov]. Умер Михаил Швейцер. Kommersantconsulté le=20 avril 2025. 3 juin 2000.
- 5.Lien archive ru auteur Пресс-служба телеканала «Россия К» [Service de presse de la chaîne de télévision « Rossiya K »] 95 лет со дня рождения Михаила Швейцера traduction 95 e anniversaire de la naissance de Mikhaïl Chveïtser http://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/128328/ 13 février 2015 Rossiya K horodatage 20180510124030 .
- 6.Lien archive ru "Я был второгодником…" Из писем Михаила Швейцера (1920-2000) http://www.sem40.ru/famous/akter32_2.htm traduction « J'étais un répétiteur… » Extrait des lettres de Mikhaïl Schweitzer (1920-2000) 29 avril 2001 sem40.ru horodatage 20160302195631 .
- 7.Lien archive ru Мария Костюкевич [Maria Kostyukevich] Швейцерова соната traduction Sonate de Schweitzer http://www.mk.ru/culture/article/2010/02/19/434096-shveytserova-sonata.html 19 février 2010 Moskovski Komsomolets 1562-1987 111 horodatage 20160302103933 .
- 8.Мария Костюкевич [Maria Kostyukevich]. “Воскресение” Швейцера-Милькиной. Режиссерский тандем увековечили вопреки обычаям. Moskovski Komsomolets , lire en ligne. 24 août 2009.
- 9.Здравствуй, Миша, здравствуй, Соня!. Nezavissimaïa Gazeta , lire en ligne. 26 août 2009.
- 10.Снят мультфильм на песенку Софьи Милькиной и Михаила Швейцера. , lire en ligne. 15 février 2001.
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