Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, ; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.

Filmography

• The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.
• Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
• Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
• Kotovsky (1942)
• Naval Battalion (1944)
• For Those Who Are at Sea (1947)
• A Girl with a Guitar (1948)
• They Have a Motherland (1949)
• Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)
• AuÅ¡ra prie Nemuno (1953)
• The Gadfly (1955)
• A Girl with Guitar (1958)
• Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya) (Adaptation of a book by )
• Far in the West (1968)
• 50 to 50 (1972)
• Without the Right to Mistake (1974)
• The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)
• Farewell tour Artist (1979)

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