Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.

Filmography

 * The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.
 * Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
 * Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
 * Kotovsky (1942)
 * Naval Battalion (1944)
 * For Those Who Are at Sea (1947)
 * A Girl with a Guitar (1948)
 * They Have a Motherland (1949)
 * Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)
 * Aušra prie Nemuno (1953)
 * The Gadfly  (1955)
 * A Girl with Guitar (1958)
 * Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya) (Adaptation of a book by Kurt Sandner)
 * Far in the West (1968)
 * 50 to 50 (1972)
 * Without the Right to Mistake (1974)
 * The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)
 * Farewell tour Artist (1979)