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Filmmaker · Estonia

Gerbert Rappaport

Died in 1983

Herbert Rappaport was born in Vienna in 1908 into a Jewish family, began as an assistant director in Germany in the late twenties, then worked with Georg Wilhelm Pabst and in the United States. Invited in 1936 to the Soviet Union to open its cinema to foreign methods, he spent forty years there under the name of Gerbert Rappaport, made four films in Estonia between 1947 and 1960, and died in Leningrad in 1983.

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