Aleksandr Stolper Explained

Aleksandr Borisovich Stolper (Russian: Александр Борисович Столпер; 12 August 1907, in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) – 12 January 1979, in Moscow) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.^{[1] [2]} He directed 14 films between 1940 and 1977. Aleksandr Stolper was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949 and 1951^[3] and received the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1977.^[4]

Filmography

• The Law of Life (1940)
• Lad from Our Town (1942)
• Wait for Me (1943)
• Days and Nights (1945)
• Our Heart (1946)
• Tale of a True Man (1948)
• Far from Moscow (1950)
• The Road (1955)
• A Unique Spring (1957)
• Hard Happiness (1958)
• The Alive and the Dead (1964)
• Retribution (1967)
• The Fourth (1972)
• Slope: Zero (1977)

Notes and References

1. Book: Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Peter Rollberg. Rowman & Littlefield. 2016. US. 710–711.
2. [Yevgeny Leonov]
3. https://archive.today/20070910125256/http://www.russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=15&e_dept_id=1&text_element_id=2359 Энциклопедия отечественного кино. Александр Борисович Столпер
4. http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=165670&cid=86 Путёвка длиной в жизнь