Leonid Zorin Explained

Birth Name:	Leonid Genrikhovich Salzman
Birth Date:	3 November 1924
Birth Place:	Baku, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
Death Place:	Moscow, Russia

Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin (ru|Леонид Генрихович Зорин; 3 November 1924 – 31 March 2020) was a Russian playwright.^[1] He was born in Baku, Soviet Union, and studied at Azerbaijan University and at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.^[2] He is author of plays and screenplays. His most performed work is A Warsaw Melody (1967).^[3]

Selected filmography

• 20,000 Leagues Across the Land (1960)
• Peace to Him Who Enters (1961)
• The Man from Nowhere (1961)
• Friends and Years (1965)
• The Ugly Story (1966)
• Stopwatch (1970)
• Grandmaster (1972)
• Kind Men (1979)
• The Transit (1982)
• The Pokrovsky Gate (1982)^{[4] [5]}
• Royal Hunt (1990)

Notes and References

1. https://rg.ru/2020/03/31/umer-avtor-pokrovskih-vorot-leonid-zorin.html Умер автор «Покровских ворот» Леонид Зорин
2. Encyclopedia: Bédé. Jean-Albert. Edgerton. William. Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature. 1980. Columbia University Press. New York.
3. Encyclopedia: Kennedy. Dennis. The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance. 2010. Oxford University Press.
4. http://magazines.russ.ru/novyi_mi/2008/11/zo8.html Из «Зелёных тетрадей»
5. http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/Article/1501108.html Леонид Зорин впервые стал Лауреатом