Zarkhi A.G., (1908-1997), film director

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ZARKHI Alexander Grigoryevich (1908, St. Petersburg - 1997), film director, script writer, People’s Artist of the USSR (1969), Hero of Socialist Labour (1978). After graduating from the Leningrad School of Screen Arts he worked at Lenfilms in 1929-50 to shoot 13 films in collaboration with I. E. Heifits, the most remarkable of them including Baltic Deputy of 1937, awarded a Stalin Prize in 1941, Member of the Government of 1940, His Name Is Sukhe-Bator of 1942, and The Defeat of Japan of 1945, awarded a Stalin Prize in 1946. He worked at Belarusfilm Studio from 1951, and Mosfilm Studio afterwards. His most prominent films of that period included Height of 1957, My Younger Brother of 1962, and Anna Karenina of 1967. He was a co-screenwriter for most of his films. Zarkhi’s concerns lay with everyday life, putting a special emphasis on an actor’s performance paying attention to surrounding action.

Reference: Абольник О. Александр Зархи // Режиссеры советского кино. М., 1986. Вып. 3.

I. V. Sepman. Heifits Iosif Efimovich
Zarkhi Alexander Grigoryevich
Абольник О. Александр Зархи // Режиссеры советского кино. М., 1986 Lenfilm, Film Studio