Mikhail Schweitzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mikhail Schweitzer

Soviet film director and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1920

Place of Birth: Perm, Perm Krai, Russia

Date of Death: 02-Jun-2000

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mikhail (or Moisei/Moses) Abramovich Schweitzer (Russian: ?????? (??????) ????????? ???????, 16 February 1920, Perm, RSFSR - 2 June 2000, Russia) was an outstanding Soviet film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR. Mikhail Shveitser graduated from VGIK, directing class of Sergei Eisenstein art workshop.
He started to work at Mosfilm Studios since 1943.
Shveitser was an assistant director of Man No 217 film production in 1944.
Mikhail Romm was a director of that film.
When Shveitser lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studios only with Mikhail Romm's help.