Aleksandr Stolper

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borisovich and the family name is Stolper.

Aleksandr Borisovich Stolper (Russian: Александр Борисович Столпер; 12 August 1907, in Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) – 12 January 1979, in Moscow) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.^[1][2] He directed 14 films between 1940 and 1977. Aleksandr Stolper was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949 and 1951^[3] and received the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1977.^[4]

Filmography

• The Law of Life (1940)
• Lad from Our Town (1942)
• Wait for Me (1943)
• Days and Nights (1945)
• Our Heart (1946)
• Tale of a True Man (1948)
• Far from Moscow (1950)
• The Road (1955)
• A Unique Spring (1957)
• Hard Happiness (1958)
• The Alive and the Dead (1964)
• Retribution (1967)
• The Fourth (1972)
• Slope: Zero (1977)