FILM DIRECTOR

Iosif Kheifits

1905 - 1995

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Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits (17 December [O.S. 4 December] 1905 – 24 April 1995) was a Soviet film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946), People's Artist of USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labor (1975). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iosif Kheifits has received more than 28,386 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Iosif Kheifits is the 1,293rd most popular film director (down from 1,220th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 163rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Iosif Kheifits ranks 1,293 out of 2,041. Before him are Georgy Tovstonogov, Peter Hall, Owen Roizman, Rian Johnson, Nikos Koundouros, and Rafael Gil. After him are André Roosevelt, Alain Jessua, Buddy Van Horn, Neil Burger, Nunnally Johnson, and Werner Klingler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Iosif Kheifits ranks 324. Before him are Bernhard Minetti, Juan Alfonso Valle, Leni Junker, Raymundo Rodríguez, Max Bulla, and Henry Wilcoxon. After him are Anna Chandy, Sheikh Abdullah, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Dragutin Tadijanović, T. Keith Glennan, and Miguel Mihura. Among people deceased in 1995, Iosif Kheifits ranks 274. Before him are José Luis González Dávila, Phil Harris, Maino Neri, Sabir Yunusov, Stephen Spender, and Don Patinkin. After him are Giovanni Giacomazzi, Torfi Bryngeirsson, T. Keith Glennan, Rauf Hajiyev, René Lemoine, and Godfrey Brown.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Iosif Kheifits ranks 173 out of 368. Before him are Vladimir Makei (1958), Vladimir Samsonov (1976), Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Ivan Edeshko (1945), Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko (1938), and Andrei Sannikov (1954). After him are Wilhelm Anderson (1880), Aleksandr Dedyushko (1962), Andrey Melnichenko (1972), Mikhail Myasnikovich (1950), Aryna Sabalenka (1998), and Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (1875).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belarus

Among film directors born in Belarus, Iosif Kheifits ranks 2. Before him are Sergei Loznitsa (1964).

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Filmography

Lady with the Dog
Director
On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair. After a short time, she returns to Saratov, he to Moscow, believing it’s good-by forever. All winter he is miserable, enervated, distracted by tristesse. In desperation, he contrives to go to Saratov, surprising her at a concert. Fearing discovery in her home town, she promises to come to Moscow. Will they cast aside reputation to live together, or will theirs be an affair of infrequent encounters in hotel rooms?
Jan 28o 19605.6 / 10
The Rumyantsev Case
Director
Sasha Rumyantsev, a long-range driver, becomes an unwitting accomplice in a crime committed by the head of the motor depot where he works. The honest guy is accused of stealing a car of a hard-to-find product. The collective of the motor depot amicably stands up to protect their comrade and helps the investigator, Colonel Afanasyev, to find and expose the true criminals.
Mar 8o 19566.3 / 10
The Duel
Director
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
Dec 20o 19735.7 / 10