Shane Alexander Samuilovich - Soviet and Russian director, screenwriter, winner of numerous awards, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
The early years of Alexander Shane
Shane Alexander was born in 1933 in Moscow inthe family of theater administrator Samuel Abramovich Shane and housewives Clara Borisovna Driban. In addition to Alexander, the family brought up two more children - Fedor and Irina. From childhood, the future director absorbed the creative atmosphere of the theater, attended almost all the premieres, was personally acquainted with many actors and directors. Work in the theater was his dream, and she was destined to come true. Therefore, when it came time to choose a profession, Shane Alexander did not think too long and decided to enter the theater. However, before entering the university, Shane had to work as an assistant director in the Yermolova Theater until 1956. However, these years could not be considered lived in vain, during which time the future director and screenwriter had the opportunity to thoroughly study the whole mechanism of the theater work hidden from the viewer, which was very useful to him in his future activities. And only in 1958, Shane Alexander was enrolled in GITIS, where he studied at the directing department until 1963 in the course of the experienced master Yuri Zavadsky.
Alexander Shane - director
However, even without a diploma, Alexander beginstry your hand as a director. Thus, in the period from 1961 to 1962, he worked in a number of theaters in Kazan, Tula and Moscow. In 1962 he was involved as a second director in the shooting of the film “Hello, children!”, This was the first film work by Alexander Shein. The film tells about the tragic fate of a Japanese girl who became ill with radiation sickness after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then by the will of fate turned out to be on holiday in the camp "Artek" on the Black Sea coast. Shane Alexander worked on this work together with the director Mark Donskoy.
The first independent filmmaker AlexanderSheina became the “Family Happiness” film based on Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s novel “Nerves”, and the stars of Soviet cinema such as Valentin Gaft, Alisa Freindlikh, Vyacheslav Tikhonov and others were involved in the film, however, despite this, the tape did not have much rolling success. .
Multi-screen movie
Since 1970, in the life of Alexander Shanethe era of multi-screen cinema begins, it was destined to become the father and ancestor of this trend in the domestic spaces. The essence of multiscreen cinema comes down to displaying several thematically related images on one screen. This direction was developed in the west in the first half of the twentieth century, however, it became an innovation for Soviet cinema. For the modern viewer, there is nothing surprising in the "multi-screen spectacle," but it is worth remembering that this is an era far from digital technology. As part of this project, Alexander Shane became the organizer and head of the Sovpolikadr creative workshop, which was engaged in filming documentary and journalistic films using a multi-screen method. During the operation of the workshop, Alexander Shane shot about 13 paintings. Among them are "Our March", "Internationale", "I am a citizen of the Soviet Union" and other tapes. In particular, the film "Our March" won the Grand Prix "Golden Dove" at the International Film Festival in Leipzig. Most of these works praised the Soviet system and in every way promoted it.
Few people know that Alexander Shane himself starred ina few movie rolls, although these works were episodic, but still they are also worth mentioning. So, he was remembered by many in his role in the first Soviet catastrophe film “Crew” (1979), already in adulthood A. Shane took part in the filming of the popular TV series “Two Fates” (2002), where he played the role of Osetrova.
A family
Shane Alexander Samuilovich was married, became a fathertwo children - the daughter of Katerina and son Alexander. The latter followed in the footsteps of his father and became a famous director and producer of films. Her daughter is far from the cinema, but her occupation is connected with art and creativity - she is the administrator of art exhibitions.
Alexander Shane, director and screenwriter, died on February 24, 2015 in Moscow.
