Hanan Moiseevich Shmain (1902 - not earlier than 1969) - Soviet film director of the school Lesya Kurbasa , screenwriter .
| Hanan Moiseevich Shmain | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1902 |
| Place of Birth | Belotserkovsky district |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Profession | film director , screenwriter |
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Biography
Born under the White Church ( Kiev province ), studied acting at the White Church studio “Kiidramte”. Since 1927 he was an actor of the Kharkov Theater of Small Forms “The Joyful Proletarian” , at the same time he began working as a director and moved to Odessa (1930). Later he moved to Kiev with his family, and then to Moscow.
In 1941, Hanan Moiseevich Shmain volunteered for the front, was captured by the Germans, miraculously escaped, his family was in dire poverty [1] .
After the war, Mosfilm shot two films at the film studio: Dangerous Rail (1952) and Hypnosis Session (1953). In 1957-1969 he worked as a director at the Tsentrnauchfilm film studio.
In the book “Les Kurbas. Memoirs of Contemporaries ”(Kiev: Art, 1969) included the memoirs of Kh. M. Shmain“ Director, teacher, scientist. ”
Creativity
Director of several comedy films, including One Day in the Summer (scripted by Ilf and Petrov ) and The Hypnosis Session. He worked with the film studios Ukrainfilm (Kiev) and Mosfilm (1953). The staging work of H. Shmain in the film “Once in the Summer” was highly appreciated by I. Ilyinsky , who played two main roles in it - the swindler of the pseudo-professor Saint-Verbud and the chairman of the automobile club, nicknamed “Telescope” [2] :
Hanan Moiseevich was truly enthusiastic about his work - after all, the technical capabilities we had at that time were very modest and limited. In the film, there were supposed to be car races, a car explosion, a collapsing bridge, however, he successfully coped with both the filming and the editing. The film was praised by Ilf and Petrov, who were the authors of the script
Family
- Wife - Lia Lvovna Brodzinskaya - Yiddish literature teacher, fled from Poland to the USSR [1] .
- Son - Ilya Hananovich Shmain (1930-2005) - an Orthodox pastor , archpriest , clergyman of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at the Yauz Gate [3] [4] .
- Granddaughter - Anna Ilyinichna Shmaina-Velikanova (born 1955) - doctor of cultural studies, religious scholar, biblical scholar, teacher of Moscow theological universities [5] .
- Son - Ilya Hananovich Shmain (1930-2005) - an Orthodox pastor , archpriest , clergyman of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at the Yauz Gate [3] [4] .
Filmography
- 1930 - the short film " Cleaning " - director and screenwriter
- 1930 - Navel Station
- 1932 - Bon appetit , director and screenwriter
- 1936 - Once Upon a Time [6]
- 1952 - The Dangerous Rail
- 1953 - “ Session of Hypnosis ” [7] - director and screenwriter
- 1957 - “I work for the MZM” (director and scriptwriter, Centrnauchfilm)
- 1958 - "All-Union Industrial Exhibition" (Centrnauchfilm)
- 1959 - “The Key to Abundance” (director and scriptwriter, Centrnauchfilm)
- 1960 - "The humble guy" (Centernauchfilm)
- 1961 - "The Story of the Honorary Engineer" (Centernauchfilm)
- 1965 - OSJ (Center Nauchfilm)
- 1969 - “The Name of the Lenin Komsomol” (Centrnauchfilm)
Literature
- Cinema and time. Vol. 3rd. Directors of Soviet feature films. M., 1963. - P.308
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Journal Hall: Maxim Osipov “On Father Ilya”
- ↑ Okunev I. They were part of his life (inaccessible link) . International Jewish Newspaper. Date of treatment January 19, 2013. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Portal-Credo.Ru: Ilya Hananovich Shmain
- ↑ Ilya Hananovich Shmain
- ↑ Anna Ilyinichna Shmaina-Velikanova (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 17, 2013. Archived October 29, 2013.
- ↑ Once in the Summer (1936)
- ↑ Hypnosis Session (1953)