Alexis Granowsky
Alexei Mikhailovich Granovsky, Russian Алексей Михайлович Грановский, born Abraham Ozark, Alexander Granovsky, France Alexis Granowsky (* 1890 in Moscow, Russian Empire, † March 11, 1937 in Paris, France) was a Russian theater and film director.
Life
Granovsky was born when Abraham Ozark in a large middle-class Jewish family. In 1911 he graduated from a theater school in St. Petersburg, followed by a two-year study of the dramatic arts at the Munich Theatre Academy. In Munich he worked with Max Reinhardt, with whom he temporarily took an internship and strongly influenced his later work.
Followed in 1914 his directorial debut at a theater in Riga, followed by various stations on Russian stages. After abgeleistetem military service Granovsky went to Sweden in 1917, where he began to study film, Faculty Director. Two years later founded Granovsky 1919 in St. Petersburg, the Jewish Theater Studio and moved there in 1920 as a Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow, where he became acted as director and artistic director. On its premises, were listed on the pieces in Yiddish language, played mostly young, talented performers such as the renowned Jewish actor Solomon Michoels. 1925 renamed his theater to the Jewish Academic Theatre " GOSET " he acted as a director in their productions.
In 1925 he completed his first film, the comedy Jewish luck with Solomon Michoels in the lead role. From a tour 1928/29, according to Germany Granovsky did not return to the Soviet Union and instead worked in several revues for the directed by Max Reinhardt German Theatre in Berlin. In Germany he turned in 1931 two early sound films that experimented with the possibilities of the new medium, the song of life and the case of the Lord OF In reference to the idea of the absolute film is the cinematic language at the center of these films, which are also of the contemporary art were met with suspicion because of their artistic self-indulgence and symbolic exaggeration.
Then Granovsky went to France, where was he directed, among others, in 1935 Taras Bulba.