Herbert Rappaport

Directing·Jul 7, 1908·Vienna, Austria

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Herbert Rappaport (July 7, 1908 – September 5, 1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director. Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1927 to 1929 he studied law at University of Vienna. Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and the United States from 1928 onward. During the early 1930s he worked as an assistant to Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In 1936 he was officially invited to the Soviet Union to internationalize the Soviet Cinema which he accepted and spent the following 40 years working as a filmmaker there. Among Rappaport's best known films is Cherry Town (1962), an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. In 2008 the first workshow was initiated outside Russia by the Austrian Filmmuseum and SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, showing about half of his films.

Film	Credit
It Doesn't Concern Me1977 · Director	Director
A Circle1972 · Director	Director
Black Rusks1972 · Director	Director
Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show1967 · Director	Director
Cherry Town1963 · Director	Director
NNo Matter How the Rope Twists1961 · Director	Director
The Sun and the Rain1960 · Director	Director
Poddubensky Ditties1957 · Director	Director
Andrus' Happiness1955 · Director	Director
Stars of the Russian Ballet1954 · Director	Director
AA Fan's Dream1953 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Song and Dance Concert1952 · Director	Director
Light Over Koordi1951 · Director	Director
Alexander Popov1949 · Director	Director
Life in the Citadel1947 · Director	Director
Air Taxi1943 · Director	Director
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #121942 · Director	Director
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #21941 · Director	Director
FFilm Concert 19411941 · Director	Director
Musical Story1940 · Director	Director
Guest1939 · Director	Director
Professor Mamlock1938 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Comradeship1931 · Writer	Writer