Aleksandr Aleksándrovich Álov (Russian: Алекса́́ндр Алекса́ндрович А́лов, birth surname Lápsker -Ла́пскер-; Kharkov, September 26, 1923-Moscow, June 12, 1983) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1985) and decorated as People’s Artist of the USSR (1983).
Biography
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Lapsker was born on September 26, 1923 in Kharkov, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. During the Great Patriotic War he organized amateur artistic entertainments of the regiment. He was wounded in the head.
In 1951 he finished his studies at the faculty of the Pan-Soviet Gerasimov University of Cinematography, where he attended the master classes of Igor Savchenko.
Between 1951 and 1957 he worked as director of the A. P. Dovzhenko Film Studios, and from 1957, director of the Mosfilm Studios. In 1971 he directed, together with Vladimir Naumov, the show Toots, Others and the Greatest by István Orkény, at the Sovrémennik Theatre in Moscow. The collaboration with Naúmov lasted for 25 years (about it speaks the film Alov (1985) by Naúmov), and both directed from 1980 a cinematographic workshop of the Gerasimov University.
He died on June 12, 1983 in Riga. His remains rest in the Vagankovo cemetery in Moscow.
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