Herbert Rappaport

Directing

Born 1908-07-07 Died 1983-09-05 Vienna, Austria 25 credits Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" 1 Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" 1 Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" 1 Stalin Prize, 2nd degree 1

Awards

Won 1 Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Award

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" 1 won

— Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Won

Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" 1 won

— Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" Won

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" 1 won

— Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Won

Stalin Prize, 2nd degree 1 won

— Stalin Prize, 2nd degree Won

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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.