Alexander Mitta
(biography, photos, videos) Alexander Rabinovich
Alexander Mitta : biography
The real name of famous film Director Alexander Mitta Rabinowitz. He was born in March 1933 in the Moscow intelligent Jewish family, where both parents and grandparents were deeply devoted to the ideals of October. And almost all suffered a period of repression after 1937. The tragic fate of the mother of Alexander Naumovich. She was serving a sentence in the Siberian camps, and her life ended early. Son put on the feet of the father, only in his old age found a mate.
Alexander Naumovich was a gifted boy, he was well versed in painting, he painted and dreamed of becoming an artist. But the film world was attracted and beckoned Sasha Rabinovich since childhood.
After school, Alexander Rabinovich took the documents to the art school. But soon he was expelled from there: talent Sasha was very crowded in the narrow space of socialist realism. Unrecognized, the artist decided to continue his education in other Metropolitan Institute of civil engineering. His mentor was the famous constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov. In 1955, Alexander graduated from high school, but the work the architect did not want to. Experience a short stay in art school allowed Rabinowitz to order caricatures in the legendary «Crocodile» and then at the illustrations in the children’s magazine «Cheerful pictures».
One day the artist brought the Crocodile his cartoons. They really liked the editor, but he, after some hesitation, refused to accept the job, saying that «Rabinovich «Crocodile» is already too much.» In 1955 Alexander was Mitta. By the way, the young man did not hide and was not ashamed of Jewish origin. And as alias has even taken the Hebrew name of someone from relatives on the mother.
Alexander Mitta movies
A cinematic biography of Alexander Mitta began in 1961 with a thesis. Alexander and his classmate Alexey Saltykov set at the Studio «Mosfilm» his graduation film «my Friend, Kolka!». It is based on the eponymous play by founder newsreel «jumble» Alexander Khmelik. Nobody expected that the diploma melodrama about children and schools enter the twenty most popular paintings in 1961. From may to December «
In 1969, the creative biography of Alexander Mitta has added a new page: the young Director first became an actor. MITT played the intellectual Bishop in the film Marlena hutsieva called «July rain».
Teenage topic was so close to Mitta, he again continued in his next film «dot, Dot, comma…» that was released in 1972. And for this picture of Alexander Mitta himself wrote the screenplay. The skill of the young Director was recognized. First, the 1970s film has received numerous awards, including the international (in Salerno).
From the usual teenage themes Alexander Mitta stepped in his film «Moscow, my love» (romance), «Skaz about how Tsar Peter arapa married» (tale), «Gori, Gori, Moya Zvezda» (tragicomedy) and, of course, absolutely new for the national cinema of the time the genre of the disaster movie. It was unmarked picture-legend «
Following a new stage in the Director Mitta became the musical tale is an allegory called «the Tale of wandering», in which the main role was played by Alexander Mironov. The picture is interesting because removing it, Alexander Naumovich decided for itself which of the two film schools closer to him – the actor or Stanislavsky. The picture is a kind of «hybrid» of different creative ideas, brilliant combination incompatible.
Another film, after which Alexander Mitta did a long ten year break from work – «lost in Siberia». This joint British-Soviet picture of the English archaeologist, referred to Stalin’s camps. During these years, MITT did not take off new paintings, but he visited the United States and many European countries, where not only adopt experience, but also taught directing (in Hamburg and its Moscow Studio).
In the two thousandth MITT again loudly reminded of itself by series «
Alexander Mitta: personal life
Personal life Alexander Mitta was stormy. My favorite
Alexander Mitta: filmography
- My friend, Kolka!
- Without fear and without reproach
- Call, open the door
- Burn, burn, my star
- Point, point, comma…
- The story of how Tsar Peter moor married
- The crew
- Lost in Siberia
- Limit. Taiga novel
- Swan Paradise
- Chagall — Malevich
Alexander Mitta: photo