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Mongolia

Filmmaker · Mongolia

Ilya Trauberg

Died in 1948

Ilya Trauberg was born in Odessa in 1905, on 13 December or 20 November depending on the sources. In 1927 he made a documentary on Leningrad, then in 1929 a silent film in which workers and peasants seize a train in a Chinese station, and in the thirties and during the war he continued a career as a director in the service of the Soviet studios. Sent to Germany after the war, he joined in 1947 the board of the East German studio in the Soviet occupation zone. He died in Berlin in December 1948, in circumstances that remain obscure.

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