Aleksei Kapler - Biography

Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, Алексей (born Лазарь) Яковлевич Каплер); Kiev, (Moscow, 11 October 1903 Old Style – 11 September 1979) was a Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and writer. He was known as an anchor and director of the TV program Kinopanorama (a cinema overview). In 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

He is also known for his brief romance with Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. It is alleged that the latter fact was the reason for Kapler to be declared an "English spy" and sentenced to a five-year exile in Vorkuta in 1942 and he worked at Vorkuta prisoner's theatre.

Filmography

• 1926 The Overcoat (actor)
• 1930 Pravo Na Zhenshchinu (A Licence to Have a Woman) (silent film, Ukrainfilm studio, Kiev, director), shown at the XXV Moscow International Film Festival, 2003
• 1931 Shakhta 12-28 (Mine 12-28) (director)
• 1939 Lenin v 1918 Godu (Lenin in 1918) (screenwriter)
• 1942 Slavny Maly (A Good Lad) (screenwriter)
• 1943 Den za Dnyom (Day After Day) (screenwriter)
• 1957 Za Vitrinoy Univermaga (Behind Show-Window) (screenwriter)
• 1976 Sinyaya Ptitsa (The Blue Bird) (screenwriter)
• 1987 Soshedshie s nebes (Descended From the Heavens), Lenfilm studio, is based on Kapler's story , Two of Twenty Millions.
• 1996 Vozvrashchenie bronenostsa (Return of the Battleship) is based on Kapler's story, Return of the Battleship

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