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Filmmaker · Mongolia

Lev Sheffer

Died in 1988

Lev Borisovich Sheffer was born on 28 September 1894 in Odessa. He worked for Soviet cinema from the mid-twenties: in 1925, at the Odessa film factory, he made a short film about aviation, now lost, then in 1926 co-directed a silent romantic drama produced in Moscow. Sent to Mongolia around 1936 to help found cinema there, he advised the Ulaanbaatar studio until about 1939, then returned to Moscow, where he continued working as a director, screenwriter and translator. He died in Moscow in 1988, at the age of ninety-four.

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