Aleksandr Gintsburg Explained

Aleksandr Gintsburg
Birthname:	Aleksandr Il’ich Gintsburg
Birth Date:	1907 3, df=yes
Birth Place:	Rahachow, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Death Place:	Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Occupation:	Cinematographer, Film Director
Yearsactive:	1929 - 1970

Aleksandr Gintsburg (1 March 1907 – 10 March 1972) was a Soviet cameraman and film director. He graduated from the Leningrad Phototechnicum in 1927 and from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1934.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Bolnye nervy (1929)
• Transport of Fire (1930)
• Zagovor myortvyh (1930)
• Son of the Land (1931)
• Shame (1932)
• Peasants (1935)
• Zhenitba Zhana Knukke (1935)
• City of Youth (1938)
• The Great Beginning (1939)
• Shestdesyat dney (1940)
• Wings of Victory (1941)
• Yego zovut Sukhe-Bator (1942)
• Two Soldiers (1943)
• Eto bylo v Donbasse (1949)
• Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1949)
• The Secret Brigade (1949)
• Who Laughs Last (1954)
• Cinderella (1960)
• The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)

Honours and awards

• Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1969)
• Honored Art Worker of the Byelorussian SSR (1955)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gintsburg, Aleksandr Ilich.