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Filmmaker · Russia

Mikhail Schweitzer

Died in 2000

Mikhail Schweitzer (1920-2000), born on 16 February 1920 in Perm, trained at the Moscow film institute in the workshop of Sergei Eisenstein and joined Mosfilm in 1943. He directed his first film in 1949, then devoted himself mainly to adapting the Russian classics, from Tolstoy to Gogol by way of Chekhov and Pushkin. He often worked with Sofia Milkina, who was his wife. Winner of the State Prize in 1977, he died in Moscow on 2 June 2000.

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