Aleksandr Gintsburg

Aleksandr Gintsburg (1 March 1907 – 10 March 1972) was a Soviet cameraman and film director. He graduated from the Leningrad Phototechnicum in 1927 and from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1934.

Selected filmography

 * Bolnye nervy (1929)
 * Transport of Fire (1930)
 * Zagovor myortvyh (1930)
 * Son of the Land (1931)
 * Shame (1932)
 * Peasants (1935)
 * Zhenitba Zhana Knukke (1935)
 * City of Youth (1938)
 * The Great Beginning (1939)
 * Shestdesyat dney (1940)
 * Wings of Victory (1941)
 * Yego zovut Sukhe-Bator (1942)
 * Two Soldiers (1943)
 * Eto bylo v Donbasse (1949)
 * Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1949)
 * The Secret Brigade (1949)
 * Who Laughs Last (1954)
 * Cinderella (1960)
 * The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)

Honours and awards

 * Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1969)
 * Honored Art Worker of the Byelorussian SSR (1955)