Aleksandr Gintsburg

Aleksandr Gintsburg
Born	Aleksandr Il’ich Gintsburg (1907-03-01)1 March 1907 Rahachow, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	10 March 1972(1972-03-10) (aged 65) Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia )
Occupation(s)	Cinematographer, Film Director
Years active	1929 - 1970

Aleksandr Gintsburg (1 March 1907 - 10 March 1972) was a Soviet cameraman and film director. He graduated from the Leningrad Phototechnicum in 1927 and from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1934.

Selected filmography

• Bolnye nervy (1929)
• Transport of Fire (1930)
• Zagovor myortvyh (1930)
• Son of the Land (1931)
• Shame (1932)
• Peasants (1935)
• Zhenitba Zhana Knukke (1935)
• City of Youth (1938)
• The Great Beginning (1939)
• Shestdesyat dney (1940)
• Wings of Victory (1941)
• Yego zovut Sukhe-Bator (1942)
• Two Soldiers (1943)
• Eto bylo v Donbasse (1949)
• Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1949)
• The Secret Brigade (1949)
• Cinderella (1960)
• The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (film) (1965)

Honours and awards

• Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1969)
• Honored Art Worker of the Byelorussian SSR (1955)

External links

Aleksandr Gintsburg at IMDb