Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, ; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.

Filmography The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme. Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938) Tanker "Derbent" (1941) Kotovsky (1942) Naval Battalion (1944) For Those Who Are at Sea (1947) A Girl with a Guitar (1948) They Have a Motherland (1949) Konstantin Zaslonov (1949) Aušra prie Nemuno (1953) The Gadfly (1955) A Girl with Guitar (1958) Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya) (Adaptation of a book by ) Far in the West (1968) 50 to 50 (1972) Without the Right to Mistake (1974) The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978) Farewell tour Artist (1979)