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Leonid Trauberg(1902-1990)

  • Writer
  • Director
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Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg is Soviet film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1987). Leonid Trauberg was born in Odessa. After moving to Petrograd, the family settled in house number 7, apt. 4, along Kolomenskaya street.

In December 1921, together with Grigoriy Kozintsev and G. Kryzhitskiy, he wrote the "Eccentric Theater Manifesto," which was proclaimed at a debate organized by them. In 1922, Kozintsev and Trauberg organized the Theater Workshop "Factory of an Eccentric Actor", and in the same year they put in it an eccentric reworking of "Marriage" by Nikolay Gogol. For two years, they staged 3 more plays based on their own plays, and in 1924 they transferred their experiments in the field of eccentric comedy to cinema, transforming the theater workshop into the FEKS Film Workshop.

The first full-length film by Kozintsev and Trauberg - the romantic melodrama Chyortovo koleso (1926) according to the script of Adrian Piotrovsky - was already a mature work. Love for a bright eccentric was combined with a convincing display of urban life. This film has a permanent creative team; in addition to the directors, it included cameraman Andrey Moskvin and artist Yevgeni Yenej, who worked with Kozintsev in almost all of his films.

In 1926-1932, Leonid Trauberg taught at the Leningrad Institute of Performing Arts, in 1926-1927 he was the head of the film department of the Leningrad Theater Institute. In 1961-1965 he taught at the VKSR under the Goskino USSR.
BornJanuary 17, 1902
DiedNovember 14, 1990(88)
BornJanuary 17, 1902
DiedNovember 14, 1990(88)
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  • Awards
    • 3 wins total

Known for

Nikolay Smolyak in Yunost Maksima (1935)
Yunost Maksima
6.6
  • Writer
  • 1935
The Return of Maxim (1937)
The Return of Maxim
6.4
  • Writer
  • 1937
New Horizons (1939)
New Horizons
6.0
  • Writer
  • 1939
Yelena Kuzmina and Iosif Gerasimovich in The New Babylon (1929)
The New Babylon
7.2
  • Writer
  • 1929

Credits

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Writer



  • Stories from My Childhood (1998)
    Stories from My Childhood
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Russian adaptation (as L. Trauberg)
    • 1998
  • Dva goda nad propastyu (1967)
    Dva goda nad propastyu
    6.5
    • Writer
    • 1967
  • Oleg Strizhenov in V myortvoy petle (1963)
    V myortvoy petle
    5.4
    • Writer
    • 1963
  • The Wild Swans (1962)
    The Wild Swans
    7.3
    • screenplay
    • 1962
  • Myortvye dushi (1960)
    Myortvye dushi
    7.7
    • Writer
    • 1960
  • Shli soldaty (1959)
    Shli soldaty
    7.5
    • writer
    • 1959
  • Flames on the Volga (1956)
    Flames on the Volga
    5.8
    • writer
    • 1956
  • Elu tsitadellis (1947)
    Elu tsitadellis
    6.0
    • screenplay (as L. Trauberg)
    • 1947
  • Prostye lyudi (1945)
    Prostye lyudi
    6.2
    • Writer
    • 1945
  • Boyevoy kinosbornik 1 (1941)
    Boyevoy kinosbornik 1
    7.3
    Short
    • Writer (segment "Vstrecha s Maksimom")
    • 1941
  • New Horizons (1939)
    New Horizons
    6.0
    • writer
    • 1939
  • The Return of Maxim (1937)
    The Return of Maxim
    6.4
    • Writer
    • 1937
  • Nikolay Smolyak in Yunost Maksima (1935)
    Yunost Maksima
    6.6
    • screenplay
    • 1935
  • Alone (1931)
    Alone
    6.8
    • Writer
    • 1931
  • Yelena Kuzmina and Iosif Gerasimovich in The New Babylon (1929)
    The New Babylon
    7.2
    • writer
    • 1929

Director



  • Lionella Pyryeva in Volnyy veter (1961)
    Volnyy veter
    6.2
    • Director (as L. Trauberg)
    • 1961
  • Myortvye dushi (1960)
    Myortvye dushi
    7.7
    • Director
    • 1960
  • Shli soldaty (1959)
    Shli soldaty
    7.5
    • Director
    • 1959
  • Prostye lyudi (1945)
    Prostye lyudi
    6.2
    • Director
    • 1945
  • Yunyi Frits (1943)
    Yunyi Frits
    5.7
    Short
    • Director (as L. Trauberg)
    • 1943
  • Galina Sergeyeva in Aktrisa (1943)
    Aktrisa
    7.1
    • Director
    • 1943
  • New Horizons (1939)
    New Horizons
    6.0
    • Director
    • 1939
  • The Return of Maxim (1937)
    The Return of Maxim
    6.4
    • Director
    • 1937
  • Nikolay Smolyak in Yunost Maksima (1935)
    Yunost Maksima
    6.6
    • Director
    • 1935
  • Alone (1931)
    Alone
    6.8
    • Director
    • 1931
  • Yelena Kuzmina and Iosif Gerasimovich in The New Babylon (1929)
    The New Babylon
    7.2
    • Director
    • 1929
  • Bratishka (1927)
    Bratishka
    Short
    • Director
    • 1927
  • Alexander Naumov in S.V.D. - Soyuz velikogo dela (1927)
    S.V.D. - Soyuz velikogo dela
    6.6
    • Director
    • 1927
  • Andrei Kostrichkin and Aleksandr Zelenskiy in The Overcoat (1926)
    The Overcoat
    6.6
    • Director
    • 1926
  • Chyortovo koleso (1926)
    Chyortovo koleso
    6.5
    Short
    • Director
    • 1926

Additional Crew



  • Agent sekretnoy sluzhby (1979)
    Agent sekretnoy sluzhby
    6.0
    • creative supervisor
    • 1979
  • Aystegh, ays khachmerukum (1975)
    Aystegh, ays khachmerukum
    4.9
    • creative advisor
    • 1975
  • Byashim Atakhanov in Priklyucheniya Dovrana (1969)
    Priklyucheniya Dovrana
    6.8
    • artistic director (as L. Trauberg)
    • 1969
  • Sovi tarinerits
    5.0
    Short
    • creative advisor
    • 1967

Personal details

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  • Alternative name
    • L. Trauberg
  • Born
    • January 17, 1902
    • Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
  • Died
    • November 14, 1990
    • Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
  • Other works
    Book: "David Wark Griffith". Moscow: Iskusstvo. "Zhizn' v isskusstve" Series. BBK 85.543(3)

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  • Trivia
    Brother of Ilya Trauberg.

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