Yefim Uchitel
Yefim Yulyevich Uchitel (October 28, 1913 - August 18, 1988) was a Soviet cameraman, director and screenwriter of documentary films. He was a front-line cameraman during the Great Patriotic War. He got the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
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Yefim Uchitel
- Born
- Yefim Uchitel was born on 28 October 1913. · Tiraspol.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- camera operator · film director · screenwriter
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television
- Honours
- Stalin Prize · Medal For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 · Order of Lenin · Order of the Red Star · Order of the October Revolution · People's Artist of the USSR
- Languages
- Russian
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Yefim Yulyevich Uchitel (October 28, 1913 - August 18, 1988) was a Soviet cameraman, director and screenwriter of documentary films. He was a front-line cameraman during the Great Patriotic War. He got the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.
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Yefim Uchitel (1913–1988) was a camera operator, film director and screenwriter, a national of the Russian Empire and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. The camera operator was born in Tiraspol and died in Saint Petersburg.
Yefim Uchitel was educated at Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television. The camera operator was a member of Association of Filmmakers of the USSR.
Languages used include Russian. Honours include Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, among others.
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Uchitel was born into a Jewish family in Tiraspol. His father worked as a typesetter at a newspaper. He died in 1918, and the family became dependent on Uchitel's older brother. His older sister worked as a cashier at a movie theater, and presumably inspired Uchitel's interest in filmmaking and photography. After finishing the seventh grade, he was sent to Leningrad to study at an industrial school. Later, he worked at the brick and mechanical plant. In 1929 he joined the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. From 1930 to 1935, Uchitel studied at the cameraman's department of the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers. Upon graduation, he worked as an assistant cameraman, and from 1937 he worked as a cameraman at the Leningrad studio of newsreels. During the Soviet-Finnish war he took part in filming the documentary Mannerheim Line. From June 1941, he worked as a cameraman and director in the film group of the Leningrad Front and the 67th Army. From 1964, he was head of the Lenkinochronik. Throughout his career, Uchitel made more than 50 documentaries.
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• Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" • Order of the Red Star • Order of the Patriotic War (First class) • People's Artist of the USSR • Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR
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- 1.Yefim Uchitel. IMDb.
- 2.Династия режиссеров родом из Молдовы – Ефим и Алексей Учитель. www.moldovenii.md.
- 3.Ергазина-Галеррос, Галина. Памяти фронтовых кинооператоров (1941—1945 гг.). Хроника трагедии Второй мировой войны в пути к Победе 9 Мая 1945 года: очерки, рассказы, фронтовые мелодии. Litres. 2022-06-02. 978-5-04-445226-8.
- 4.Брановер, Герман. Российская еврейская энциклопедия: Биографии, С-Я. Российская академия естественных наук. 184. 1997. 978-965-293-051-4.
- 5.Ефим УЧИТЕЛЬ. Музей ЦСДФ.
- 6.ЕВРЕИ, УЧАСТНИКИ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ, ГЕРОИ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА. 2009-05-03.
- 7.Estraikh, Gennady. Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5. NYU Press. 2022-12-20. 978-1-4798-1946-1.
- 8.Учитель Ефим Юльевич :: Память народа. pamyat-naroda.ru.
- 9.Учитель Ефим Юльевич :: Память народа. pamyat-naroda.ru.
- 10.Учитель Ефим Юльевич :: Память народа. pamyat-naroda.ru.
- 11.T͡Sentr po issledovanii͡u i documentat͡sii evropeĭskogo evreĭstva. Evrei i evreĭskiĭ narod: materialy iz sovetskoĭ pechati; ezhekvartalʹnyĭ sbornik. Jews and the Jewish people; excerpts from the Soviet Press; a quarterly collection. 46. 1978.
- 12.Dzhulaĭ, Li︠u︡dmila. Документальный иллюзион: отечественный кинодокументализм : опыты социального творчества. Материк. 136. 2001. 978-5-85646-055-0.
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