Aleksandr Faintsimmer Explained

Aleksandr Faintsimmer
Birth Name:	Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer
Birth Date:	December 31, 1906
Birth Place:	Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire
Death Place:	USSR
Resting Place:	Vvedenskoye Cemetery, Moscow
Nationality:	Russian
Occupation:	Film director

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, Russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906  - 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director.^{[1] [2]} He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller.^[3] His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.^[4]

Filmography

• The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.
• Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
• Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
• Kotovsky (1942)
• Naval Battalion (1944)
• For Those Who Are at Sea (1947)
• A Girl with a Guitar (1948)
• They Have a Motherland (1949)
• Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)
• Aušra prie Nemuno (1953)
• The Gadfly (1955)
• A Girl with Guitar (1958)
• Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya)^[5] (Adaptation of a book by)
• Far in the West (1968)
• 50 to 50 (1972)
• Without the Right to Mistake (1974)
• The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)
• Farewell tour Artist (1979)

Notes and References

1. Book: The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. 1941. Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova. Bloomsbury. 978-1838718497. 2019.
2. Web site: The New York Times. Czar Paul on Screen Again.. H.T.S.. December 10, 1934.
3. Book: Rollberg. Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. 2016. Rowman & Littlefield. 9781442268425. 179, 238, 243. en.
4. Web site: Дело в "шляпке". Легендарному фильму "Соломенная шляпка" - 40 лет. Argumenty i Fakty. Marina Murzina. 17 January 2015 .
5. Web site: Noch bez miloserdiya (1962) - IMDb . .