Biography
Herbert Rappaport (1908–1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director.Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1927 to 1929 he studied law at University of Vienna. Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and the United States from 1928 onward. During the early 1930s he worked as an assistant to Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In 1936 he was officially invited to the Soviet Union to internationalize the Soviet Cinema which he accepted and spent the following 40 years working as a filmmaker there.
Among Rappaport's best known films is an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's Cheryomushki ("Cherry Town") (1963).
In 2008 the first workshow was initiated outside Russia by the Austrian Filmmuseum and SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, showing about half of his films.
Filmography
all 23
Movies 23
Director 22
Writer 1
Меня это не касается (1977)
Сержант милиции (1975)
A Circle (1972)
Black Rusks (1972)
Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1967)
Cherry Town (1962)
Как веревочка ни вьётся (1961)
The Sun and the Rain (1960)
Поддубенские частушки (1957)
Andrus's Happiness (1955)
Stars of the Russian Ballet (1954)
Сон болельщика (1953)
Light over Koordi (1951)
Alexander Popov (1949)
Life in the Citadel (1947)
Air Taxi (1943)
Боевой киносборник №12 (1942)
Кино-концерт 1941 (1941)
Musical Story (1940)
Guest (1939)
Professor Mamlock (1938)
High and Low (1933)
Comradeship (1931)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1908-07-07
Deathday1983-08-30 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
RelativesFelix Rappaport
CitizenshipsSoviet Union, Austria
Also Known AsГерберт Раппапорт, Herbert M. Rappaport, Ге́рберт Морицевич Раппапо́рт
AwardsStalin Prize, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", People's Artist of the RSFSR
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