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Herbert Rappaport

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
0

Gender
Male

Birthday
July 7, 1908 (118 years old)

Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria

Herbert Rappaport

Biography

Herbert Rappaport (July 7, 1908 – September 5, 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 Cherry Town (1962), an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki.

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.

Known For

Directing

1977It Doesn't Concern Me...Director
1975Police Sergeant...Director
1972A Circle...Director
1972Black Rusks...Director
1967Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show...Director
1963Cherry Town...Director
1961No Matter How the Rope Twists...Director
1960The Sun and the Rain...Director
1957Poddubensky Ditties...Director
1955Andrus' Happiness...Director
1954Stars of the Russian Ballet...Director
1953A Fan's Dream...Director
1952Song and Dance Concert...Director
1951Light Over Koordi...Director
1949Alexander Popov...Director
1947Life in the Citadel...Director
1943Air Taxi...Director
1942Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12...Director
1941Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2...Director
1941Film Concert 1941...Director
1940Musical Story...Director
1939Guest...Director
1938Professor Mamlock...Director
1933High and Low...Assistant Director
1931Comradeship...Assistant Director

Writing

1977It Doesn't Concern Me...Co-Writer
1972A Circle...Co-Writer
1953A Fan's Dream...Writer
1938Professor Mamlock...Screenplay
1931Comradeship...Writer

Acting