Lev Arnshtam
Leo Oskarowitsch Arnstam, even Lew Arnstam (. Russo Лео Оскарович Арнштам; * 2 Januarjul / January 15 1905greg in Jekaterinoslaw, Russian Empire, today. Ukraine, † December 29, 1979 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet film director and writer.
Life
Arnstam studied 1913-1923 at the Leningrad Conservatory in the piano department, dealt in 1922 with the concert and went to his study to Vsevolod Meyerhold, where until 1927 he headed from 1924 the musical part of the Meyerhold Theatre. At the same time he also wrote his own incidental music. By meeting with Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg Arnstam came in 1929 on the film medium, where he first worked as a sound director. Two years later he also tried his hand as a co-author of the screenplay for the film Golden Mountains ( Золотые горы ), the director Sergei Jutkewitsch staged in 1931.
In 1935, he made his debut as a film director in feature films with the strip girlfriends ( Подруги ), followed by a series of historical strips for Lenfilm, for which he worked until 1942. In 1945, he joined Mosfilm and realized with soy and Glinka two internationally highly acclaimed films, which earned him two Stalin prizes. In 1960, he staged together with filmmakers of the DEFA film Five Days - Five Nights, which addressed the rescue of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie. In 1968 he filmed his latest film about the Russian revolutionary and activist of the Narodnaya Volya movement, Sofia Perovskaya, entitled The day will come. Henceforth, he came no more artistic in appearance.