Herbert Rappaport

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Herbert Rappaport

Born July 7, 1908 · Vienna, Austria

Died September 5, 1983 · aged 75

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 di…

Known For

Cherry TownCherry Town · 1963
Cherry Town
5.31963
MovieMusicDrama
Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye, among the new settlers called "our Cheryomushki". Lida and her father go to inspect the apartment, but it turns out that it doesn't exist. The manager of the house, Barabashkin, conducted fictitious documentation, and the Baburovs' apartment merged with the neighboring one, owned by the head of the construction trust Drebednyov.
Life in the CitadelLife in the Citadel · 1947
Life in the Citadel
3.81947
MovieDrama
Professor August Miilas has succeeded in hiding in his private house from the war. He thinks this is mainly caused by his complete devotion to science. As August is not interested in anything that is going on outside his citadel, his family members avoid disturbing him. However, the political situation disrupt August's quietude. Right in the middle of his domestic citadel, the professor finds out about dangerous secrets so that he must give up this apolitical attitude and open up for the new reality.
Professor MamlockProfessor Mamlock · 1938
Professor Mamlock
6.01938
MovieDrama
Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.
Andrus' HappinessAndrus' Happiness · 1955
Andrus' Happiness
5.71955
MovieDrama
Andrus Laane comes from a fisherman's village. He dreams of becoming a captain to sail the seas but fails the entrance exams to the marine academy. By accident he starts working at a big gas plant. Sharp-witted young man with innovative ideas will be recognized. He will also find his first true love. It seems that Andrus has found his happiness, even if not at sea.
ComradeshipComradeship · 1931
Comradeship
7.01931
MovieDrama
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
Poddubensky DittiesPoddubensky Ditties · 1957
Poddubensky Ditties
10.01957
MovieComedy
Cheerful, cheerful youth are famous everywhere for their ditties: mischievous and lyrical, thoughtful and sad, perky and poignant, they sound everywhere from early morning until late at night. Who composes them?..
The Sun and the RainThe Sun and the Rain · 1960
The Sun and the Rain
6.31960
MovieDrama
Jaak is a young labourer always facing some kind of issues and it seems he always rides for a fall. At the construction work of a new thermal power station, Jaak meets young people from the Young Communist League who won't find faults with him and are ready to help him out.
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2 · 1941
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2
10.01941
MovieWarComedy
The collection consists of five short stories: "The Meeting," "One of Many," "At the Old Nanny's," "One Hundred for One," and "The Incident at the Telegraph Office."

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