Herbert Rappaport

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show (1967) — Director
2. A Circle (1972) — Director
3. Cherry Town (1963) — Director
4. Air Taxi (1943) — Director
5. It Doesn't Concern Me (1977) — Director
6. Professor Mamlock (1938) — Director
7. Light Over Koordi (1951) — Director
8. Stars of the Russian Ballet (1954) — Director
9. Musical Story (1940) — Director
10. The Sun and the Rain (1960) — Director
11. Life in the Citadel (1947) — Director
12. Andrus' Happiness (1955) — Director
13. Black Rusks (1972) — Director
14. Alexander Popov (1949) — Director
15. Poddubensky Ditties (1957) — Director
16. Film Concert 1941 (1941) — Director
17. No Matter How the Rope Twists (1961) — Director
18. Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2 (1941) — Director
19. Police Sergeant (1975) — Director
20. A Fan's Dream (1953) — Director
21. Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12 (1942) — Director
22. Guest (1939) — Director
23. Song and Dance Concert (1952) — Director