Semyon Aranovich

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Семён Аранович
Born(1934-07-23)23 July 1934
USSR
Died8 September 1996(1996-09-08) (aged 62)
OccupationFilm director
Years active1973 – 1994

Semyon Davidovich Aranovich (Russian: Семён Дави́дович Арано́вич, 23 July 1934,

Derazhnya, Ukraine, Soviet Union – 8 September 1996, Hamburg, Germany) was a Soviet and Russian film director.[1][2]

Life and career

Aranovich attended the Supreme Naval Aviation School in Nikolaev, graduating in 1955, and served for two years in the Soviet naval aviation troops. In 1965, he graduated from

Aleksandr Sokurov on Dmitri Shostakovich (1980) — were shelved and only released during the Perestroika.[1]

His works included the documentaries

He also directed the well-known television miniseries

Confrontation
in 1985.

Andrei Kravchuk has made a documentary about him, Semyon Aranovich: Poslednii Kadr (Semyon Aranovich: The Final Shot).

Selected filmography

Documentary

  • The Anna Achmatova Files (Личное дело Анны Ахматовой, 1989)
  • I Was Stalin's Bodyguard (Я служил в охране Сталина, или Опыт документальной мифологии, 1990)

Film and television

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