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Filmmaker · Russia

Alexander Zarkhi

Died in 1997

Alexander Zarkhi (1908-1997), born in Petersburg on 18 February 1908, studied at the Leningrad technical school of screen art. From 1929 he worked at the Leningrad studio alongside Iosif Heifits, with whom he co-signed his films until the early 1950s; he received two Stalin Prizes, in 1941 and 1946. He then directed on his own. Named People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1969, then Hero of Socialist Labour in 1978, he died in Moscow on 27 January 1997.

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