Vladimir Schneiderov
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Vladimir Schneiderov (Шнейдеров, Владимир Адольфович) (1900-1973) was a Soviet-era explorer and educational film director. A member of the CPSU since 1926, he was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969.
He was targeted by the KGB for alleged anti-Soviet statements. The alleged documents against him were destroyed by the KGB member who recruited CIA agent Aldrich Ames in the 1980s.[1]
Filmography[]
- 1924 По Самарканд, (About Samarkand)
- 1924 По Узбекистану (About Uzbekistan)
- 1925 Великий перелёт
- 1928 Подножие смерти
- 1930 Эль-Йемен (Аль-Йемен) (Yemen)
- 1931 На высоте 4500
- 1933 Два океана
- 1934 (fiction: U.S. title, The Golden Taiga)
- 1935 Джульбарс
- 1937 Ущелье Аламасов
- 1938 Гайчи
- 1946—1959 киносерия «Путешествия по СССР» (series: Travels in the USSR)
- 1953 Происхождение жизни (Origins of life)
- 1958 Под небом древних пустынь (Under the ancient desert sky)
- 1960 Чарльз Дарвин (Charles Darwin)
- 1962 Жозеф Марти (Joseph Martin)
Awards[]
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Order of the Red Star (14 April 1944)
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR (6 January 1955)
- People's Artist of the RSFSR (29 September 1969)
References[]
- ^ Victor Cherkashin and , Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer - The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, Quote: "Among the documents I culled were multivolume files from the 1950s on Vladimir Schneiderov, a well-known film director. They included KGB reports alleging he had made anticommunist statements. The evidence was obviously false. No real information discredited the eminent director."
Further reading[]
- "Schneider, Vladimir Adol'fovich" - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Biography of Shnejderov
- Vladimir Shnejderov at IMDb
- . Воспоминания современника о В. А. Шнейдерове
- Когда в гостях был целый мир… История «Клуба кинопутешествий» глазами одного из его создателей Материал на сайте Фонда Всемирная Энциклопедия Путешествий]
- Фильм о фильме "Эль-Иемен".
Categories:
- Russian film directors
- 1900 births
- 1973 deaths
- Honored Artists of the RSFSR
- People's Artists of the RSFSR
- Jewish explorers
- Soviet Jews