Mikhail Schweitzer

• 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

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.

• 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)