THE UKRAINIAN DIRECTOR OF FEATURE, POPULAR-SCIENCE AND DOCUMENTARY MOVIES G.I. LIPSHITZ Cover Image

THE UKRAINIAN DIRECTOR OF FEATURE, POPULAR-SCIENCE AND DOCUMENTARY MOVIES G.I. LIPSHITZ
THE UKRAINIAN DIRECTOR OF FEATURE, POPULAR-SCIENCE AND DOCUMENTARY MOVIES G.I. LIPSHITZ

Author(s): Oleksandr Viktorovich Bezruchko
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: Grigoriy Lipshitz; cinema; Leo Kulieshov; Sergey Eisenstein; Kyiv Movie Factory (motion picture studio); film director, creative tandem; scenario writer;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of work is to research and analyze a life path and a creative career of the Ukrainian director of feature, popular-science and documentary films G.I. Lipshitz. Research methodology consists in application of methods of personology, theory of personality and historical-biographic method. The marked methodological approaches allow collecting and investigating unknown and not popular facts from the life and creative activity of film director Lipschitz. The scientific novelty of work is predefined by the necessity of study of not popular pages of history of Ukrainian cinema and his figures that on those or other reasons remained out of eyeshot of national art critics. Conclusions. The life experience and a creative career of the Ukrainian director of feature, popular-science and documentary films G.I. Lipshits was explored; his studies in VDIK in the workshop of film directors L.V. Kulieshov and S.M. Eisenstein were mentioned; the work of the script writer and the film director tandem of G. Lipshitz and O. Pavlenko during the work on the movie ‘The Willows and the Pavement’ was reconstructed; his creative activities in the Ukrainian cinematography as a script writer and a director of feature, documentary and popular-science films at the Kyiv Movie Factory was analyzed; the situation with the film ‘The Green Street’ was specified; and the list of his film director’s works was provided.