Aleksandr Stolper

{{family name hatnote|Borisovich|Stolper|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{short description|Soviet film director}} '''Aleksandr Borisovich Stolper''' ({{langx|ru|Александр Борисович Столпер}}; 12 August 1907 – 12 January 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|place=US|pages=710–711}}</ref><ref>Yevgeny Leonov. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KzYREAAAQBAJ&dq=Александр+Борисович+Столпер&pg=PT108 Letters to Son]</ref> He directed 14 films between 1940 and 1977. Aleksandr Stolper was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949 and 1951<ref>[https://archive.today/20070910125256/http://www.russiancinema.ru/template.php?dept_id=15&e_dept_id=1&text_element_id=2359 Энциклопедия отечественного кино. Александр Борисович Столпер]</ref> and received the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1977.<ref>[http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=165670&cid=86 Путёвка длиной в жизнь]</ref>

==Filmography== *''The Law of Life'' (1940) *''Lad from Our Town'' (1942) *''Wait for Me'' (1943) *''Days and Nights'' (1945) *''Our Heart'' (1946) *''Tale of a True Man'' (1948) *''Far from Moscow'' (1950) *''The Road'' (1955) *''A Unique Spring'' (1957) *''Hard Happiness'' (1958) *''The Alive and the Dead'' (1964) *''Retribution'' (1967) *''The Fourth'' (1972) *''Slope: Zero'' (1977)

==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0831590}}

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