Izya Gershtein

Izya Abramovich Gershtein was a notable Kyrgyz Soviet documentary filmmaker, cameraman and director. People's Artist of Kyrgyz SSR, Honoured Culture Worker of Kyrgyz SSR, Lenin Komsomol Prize Laureate.

Biography

In 1941 and 1942 he worked as a technician at the Aktyubinsk power plant. In 1942 became an assistant cameraman at the Frunze "Sibtechfilm" news and documentary film studio.
Later in 1942 he started working at the Kyrgyzfilm studio, eventually becoming a director. Directed the following documentary films "Right flank man", "Three answers for the mountains", "Shift", "Boomerang", "There, past the mountains, lies the horizon", "Cape of the bay runner", "Chingiz Aitmatov", "Pamir – the roof of the world", "A happy man", "Why the reward?", "Sheepherders", "Farewell, windmill", "Four portraits", "For sale to demolish" and others.
His work is characterized by a sharp journalistic vision and an expressive editing style.
Emigrated to Israel in the second half of the 1990s.
Gershtein died on 13 February 2013, in Haifa, Israel.

Filmography

''Most notable works''

Encyclopedic mentions

Cinema: An encyclopedia glossary /S.I. Yutkevich; Y.S. Afansiev, V.E. Baskakov, I.V. Weisfeld, Small Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987.- 640 pages., 96 photographs.
Soviet filmmaker association guide, 1981 edition.