Leonid Trauberg

Directing•Born January 4, 1902•Died November 13, 1990 (age 88)•Odessa, Russian Empire (Ukraine)

Biography

Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941. Trauberg was Jewish, and was fiercely attacked by Soviet authorities during the so-called "anti-cosmopolitan" period following World War II.