Birth Name: | Aleksandr Moiseyevich Lifschitz |
Birth Date: | 10 February 1919 |
Birth Place: | Minsk, Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia |
Death Place: | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Resting Place: | Komarovskoye Cemetery, Saint Petersburg |
Aleksandr Moiseyevich Volodin (Russian: Александр Моисеевич Володин; 1919 – 2001), born Lifschitz,[1] was a Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter and poet. His first play was The Factory Girl (1956).[2] His most famous plays were Five Evenings (1959), My Elder Sister and some others. In addition, he created the script for the film Autumn Marathon (1979) by director Georgy Daneliya.[3]