Herbert Rappaport
Directing
- Born
- July 7, 1908 · Vienna, Austria
- Died
- September 5, 1983 (age 75)
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.
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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.
Known for
Comradeship
November 17, 1931
Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show
May 22, 1967
Cherry Town
April 1, 1963
A Circle
December 20, 1972
Air Taxi
August 26, 1943
High and Low
December 8, 1933
It Doesn't Concern Me
December 12, 1977
Professor Mamlock
September 4, 1938
Light Over Koordi
August 27, 1951
Stars of the Russian Ballet
February 9, 1954
Musical Story
October 24, 1940
The Sun and the Rain
October 4, 1960
Behind the camera24
- 1977It Doesn't Concern Me Director, Co-Writer
- 1972A Circle Director, Co-Writer
- 1972Black Rusks Director
- 1967Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show Director
- 1963Cherry Town Director
- 1961No Matter How the Rope Twists Director
- 1960The Sun and the Rain Director
- 1957Poddubensky Ditties Director
- 1955Andrus' Happiness Director
- 1954Stars of the Russian Ballet