Iosif Kheifits
| Iosif Kheifits | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 April 1905 Minsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) |
| Died | 24 March 1995 (aged 89) St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1928-1989 |
Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits (Belarusian: Іосіф Яўхімавіч Хейфіц; 17 December [O.S. 4 December] 1905 – 24 April 1995) was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946), People's Artist of USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labor (1975). Member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union since 1945.
Kheifets was born December 17, 1905 in Minsk. In 1927 he graduated from the Leningrad Technical-screen art, and in 1928 - cinema faculty of Institute of History of Art.
In 1928, Iosif Kheifets came to work at a film studio "Sovkino" (now - Lenfilm Studio). In film, he first made his debut as a screenwriter, with A. Ivanov and Aleksandr Zarkhi he created the scripts for films "Moon on the left" and "Transportation of fire".
Later, Iosif Kheifits became the director, while from 1928 to 1950 he worked with Alexander Zarkhi, headed by 1st Komsomol stage brigade of the Leningrad factory "Sovkino" (now Lenfilm Studio), releasing films on the Soviet youth- "Wind in the face"(1930), "Noon" (1931), the comedy "Hectic Days" (1935). "Baltic Deputy" (1937), with deep historical and psychological truth, great artistic power, showed how great Russian scientist Professor Polezhayev (referring to Kliment Timiryazev, starring Nikolay Cherkasov) joined October revolution. A significant piece of cinema became "Member of the Government" (1939), film centered on the image of a Russian peasant woman (starring Vera Maretskaya), who took the difficult path from a farmhand to a deputy of the Supreme Soviet. Together with Zarkhi he set such films as "His name is Sukhebaator" (1942), "Malakhov Kurgan" (1944), the documentary "The defeat of Japan" (1945). In 1950s he directed such famous films as "A Big Family", "Rumyantsev Case", "My dear man". Then Iosif Kheifits turned to the Russian classics, filmed works of Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev, Aleksandr Kuprin - "Lady with the Dog", "Good bad man", "Asya", "Shurochka".
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