Vladimir Ernestovich Tumberg (1912 - 2002) - front-line cameraman, director of popular science films. Laureate of three Stalin Prizes ( 1946 , 1947 , 1951 ). Honored Artist of the Estonian SSR ( 1949 ). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1949 .
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Biography
Born June 15 (28), 1912 in Vladivostok . Father, a native of Estonia , was mobilized into the tsarist army and a donkey in Russia. Mother is the daughter of a miller of the Ostashkovsky district of the Tver province . Since 1918 he lived in Moscow. In 1929 he graduated from high school with a chemical bias. He began to get involved in photography. He graduated from photojournalism courses at the Moscow House of Printing.
Career start
In 1932 he entered VGIK at the camera house and graduated with honors, receiving the specialty of cameraman of feature films. He worked at the Mezhrabpomfilm film studio as an assistant operator on the films Dzhulbars and Gorky ’s Childhood . From October 1938 to October 1940 he worked as a cameraman at the Khabarovsk newsreel studio, where he shot more than 200 stories for the Soviet Far East newsreel. In October 1940 he was transferred to the Gorky newsreel studio, where he shot more than 150 stories for the film magazines of the Gorky and Moscow documentary film studios, and also participated in the filming of the films People’s Highway, War Day (1942), Komsomol’s (1943) .
Frontline Operator
In June 1943 he was directed by a cameraman to the front. First, he shot the military operations of the air defense forces to protect the ice-free Murmansk port, then on the Murmansk direction of the Karelian front . From June 1944 until the end of the war as a military cameraman he was seconded to the 1st Belorussian Front . The film material shot by Tomberg was included in the films: “Bobruisk Cauldron”, “Liberation of Soviet Belarus”, “Helm - Lublin”, “On the approaches to Warsaw”, “From the Vistula to the Oder”, “Pomerania”, “the Banner of Victory over Berlin was hoisted”, " Berlin ".
Postwar Biography
Since August 1945 - the operator of Tallinfilm . In 1948-1952 - Deputy Minister of Cinematography of the Estonian SSR. During his work in Tallinn, Tomberg directed about 100 stories for film magazines. For participating in the filming of the black-and-white film “Soviet Estonia” (directed by L. I. Stepanova ), participated in the creation of the film “Song Festival” (1947). As an author-operator, he shot the film “Estonian Collective Farm in Georgia,” for which he was awarded the Stalin Prize of the Estonian SSR (1948). As a director of photography, he shot the film essay “New Life” on the creation of collective farms in the republic and received the Stalin Prize of the Estonian SSR (1949) a second time. Received the Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR of May 7, 1947 "For high creative achievements in the field of cinematography." In 1950, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Soviet cinema, he was re-awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR.
Since November 1952, he has been the director of Tsentrnauchfilm . Created more than 60 films. Over the years of work at Tsentrnauchfilm, he received many honorary diplomas and thanks for making films, ten anniversary medals of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
V.E. Tomberg died on April 12, 2002 .
Awards and Prizes
- The Stalin Prize of the USSR of the first degree (1945) - for the movie " Berlin " (1945) [1]
- Stalin Prize of the USSR first degree (1947) - for the film "Soviet Estonia" (1946)
- USSR Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951) - for the color film "Soviet Estonia" (1950)
- two orders of the Patriotic War II degree (18.6.1945; 1.8.1986)
- medal "For the capture of Berlin"
- medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1945)
- Order of the Badge of Honor (1950)
- Veteran of Labor medal (1985)
- Honored Artist of the Estonian SSR (1949)
- Honorary Cinematographer of Russia (1995)
Filmography
- 1954 - In the vastness of Kazakhstan
- 1955 - The Story of Precast Concrete - Certificate of Merit at the Technical Film Festival in Germany
- 1956 - At the Polytechnic Museum
- 1958 - In the Hungry Steppe
- 1963 - From the history of Iron Stream
- 1964 - To the First Communist (about the sculptor L. E. Kerbel )
- 1965 - Calling of the sculptor. Manizer ; Vadim Ryndin
- 1966 - Vakhtangov
- 1968 - Sculptor Janson-Manizer ; Palace of Congresses
- 1969 - “The director reads the score. Boris Pokrovsky ; Vsevolod Ivanov
- 1970 - Zharov tells ...
- 1972 - Protazanov
- 1973 - Theater named after V. Mayakovsky ; George Vitsin
- 1975 - Soviet Theater Today
- 1976 - Extraordinary Faculty (about the acting faculty of GITIS )
- 1978 - Intourist - to the guests of the Olympics-80 - the main prize at the World Festival of Tourist Films in Czechoslovakia
- 1980 - The main types of Russian folk dance
- 1983 - A story about Soviet architecture; Academician Petrov ; Academician Piotrovsky
- 1988 - Rebel Prince (about Kropotkin )
Compositions
- The book of V. E. Tomberg “Behind the rear and at the front. Memoirs of a front-line cinematographer ”(M., Eisenstein Center, 2003) was awarded the prize of the Guild of Film Critics and Film Critics of Russia in the field of film science and film criticism“ Elephant ”for 2004 in the nomination“ Memoir-Biographical Literature on Cinema ”.
- V.E. Tomberg. In the rear and at the front. Memoirs of a front-line cameraman. - M., Eisenstein Center, 2003.
Notes
- ↑ Berlin (1945) . Museum TSSDF. Date accessed August 16, 2019.