| Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport (Герберт Раппапорт) |
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| Born | Herbert Rappaport July 7, 1908 Vienna, Austria–Hungary (now Austria) |
| Died | September 5, 1983 (aged 75) Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
Herbert Rappaport (1908 - 1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director.
Born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.[1] In 1927—1929 studied law at University of Vienna, Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and USA from 1928 onward. During early 1930s worked as assistant to Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In 1936 he was officially invited to Soviet Union to internationalize the Soviet Cinema that he accepted and following 40 years he spent working as a filmmaker in Soviet Union.
Among Rappaport's best known films is an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich' Cheryomushki (Cherry Town) (1963)
In 2008 the first workshow[1] was initiated outside Russia by the Austrian Filmmuseum and SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, showing about half of his films.