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Herbert Rappaport
Vienna, Austria
Herbert Rappaport (July 7, 1908 – September 5, 1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director. Rappapor…
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Herbert Rappaport (July 7, 1908 – September 5, 1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director. Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1927 to 1929 he studied law at University of Vienna. Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and the United States from 1928 onward. During the early 1930s he worked as an assistant to Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In 1936 he was officially invited to the Soviet Union to internationalize the Soviet Cinema which he accepted and spent the following 40 years working as a filmmaker there. Among Rappaport's best known films is Cherry Town (1962), an adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich's operetta Moscow, Cheryomushki. In 2008 the first workshow was initiated outside Russia by the Austrian Filmmuseum and SYNEMA-Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, showing about half of his films.
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1977
It Doesn't Concern Me
Movie Director
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1975
Police Sergeant
TV show Director
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1972
A Circle
Movie Director
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1972
Black Rusks
Movie Director
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1967
Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show
Movie Director
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1963
Cherry Town
Movie Director
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1961
No Matter How the Rope Twists
Movie Director
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1960
The Sun and the Rain
Movie Director
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1957
Poddubensky Ditties
Movie Director
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1955
Andrus' Happiness
Movie Director
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1954
Stars of the Russian Ballet
Movie Director
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1953
A Fan's Dream
Movie Director
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1952
Song and Dance Concert
Movie Director
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1951
Light Over Koordi
Movie Director
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1949
Alexander Popov
Movie Director
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1947
Life in the Citadel
Movie Director
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1943
Air Taxi
Movie Director
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1942
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12
Movie Director
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1941
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2
Movie Director
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1941
Film Concert 1941
Movie Director
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1940
Musical Story
Movie Director
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1939
Guest
Movie Director
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1938
Professor Mamlock
Movie Director
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1933
High and Low
Movie Assistant Director
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1931
Comradeship
Movie Writer
