Hershtein Izy Abramovich
Film director. Honored Artist of the Kyrgyz SSR (1974). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1953. Born on June 22, 1923, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a working-class family. After finishing high school in 1941, he worked as a laboratory assistant at an elevator in Aktobe during evacuation. In February 1942, he moved to Frunze and began working at the studio as a lighting technician, then as an artist-animator, and from 1944 to 1949 as an assistant and operator's assistant. From 1950 to 1963, he shot about 350 stories for the newsreel "Soviet Kyrgyzstan" as an operator, including 16 special issues and documentary films such as "In the Valley of Susamyr," "Dam in the Mountains," "Big Chui Canal," "Safe Journey," "Kyrgyzstan Sings," "Kyrgyzstan at the VI World Festival," "They Were Born in the Tian Shan," "Sunny City," "Holiday of Kyrgyz Art," and the popular science essay "Shift-Pasture Content of Livestock."
I. Hershtein's directorial activity began with the release of the documentary film "With Mongolian Friends" (1959). A step towards cinematic journalism was the series of releases of the newsreel "Love Your City" (1959—1961). In 1960, the essay "Right Flank" appeared — the first attempt to create a documentary film portrait of a real hero — the renowned smelter Saidulla Tisheeva. A significant step forward was the film portrait "Artist Semyon Chuykov" (1962), which revealed to the audience the uniqueness of the creative path of the famous master of Kyrgyz painting.
The following films "Three Answers to the Mountains" (1963, diploma of II degree for the best chronicle-documentary film at the I review of documentary films in Ashgabat in 1963), "Shift" (1964, diploma of I degree for the best chronicle-documentary film at the IV review-competition of filmmakers from the Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan in 1965 in Almaty), "Boomerang" (1965, special diploma "For Sharp Publicistic Presentation of a Socially Significant Problem" at the V review-competition of filmmakers from the Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan in Ashgabat in 1966), "There, Beyond the Mountains, the Horizon" (1965, jointly with B. Galanter), "Cape of the Gnedoy Horse" (1966, diploma of II degree for the best chronicle-documentary film at the VI review-competition of filmmakers from the Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan in Dushanbe in 1967) marked the flourishing of the director's creativity.
The versatility of the documentary filmmaker's interests is manifested in the diversity of themes and genres chosen. Alongside the report film "Architect of the Scene" (1967), which tells about the daily life of the remarkable opera theater artist A. V. Arefyev, there is a historical-biographical essay "Chinghiz Aitmatov" (1968, diploma for the best popular science film and for the best script at the VIII review-competition of filmmakers from the Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan in Almaty in 1969), a report with lyrical portraits of border guards — "Outpost" (1968), a lyrical-visual film "Pamir — Roof of the World" (1969, prize "Silver Dolphin" at the International Film Competition of Geographical Films in Tehran in 1971), "mountaineering" reports — "Ice Reconnaissance" (1970), "Summit" (1970), "Summit of Friendship" (1972), sociological films — "Absolute Age" (1969), "Landing Point" (1969), "Why the Award?" (1973), "Workers of the Land" (1978), individual and group film portraits of heroes of labor — "High Voltage" (1972), "Happy Man" (1972), "Talaa-Bulak" (1976), "Goodbye, Mill!" (1977), "Shepherds" (1978), "Four Portraits" (1979), popular science essay "Archa" (1974), anniversary overview films "Ala-Too Salutation" and "Days of Kyrgyzstan in Moscow" (both in 1975).
Veteran of Kyrgyz documentary filmmaking I. Hershtein is an example of inexhaustible creative activity and tireless search. His films, made in different genres and varying in their aesthetic merits, teach to love labor, the native land, to protect and cherish nature, awaken in viewers civic feelings, a desire to live by the Moral Code of Communism, and to bring benefits to the state and their comrades every day, every hour.
Awards — medal "For Valorous Labor in the Great Patriotic War" (1946). Four Certificates and two Honorary Certificates from the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR (1950—1969). Badge "Excellence in Soviet Cinematography" (1965). Medal "For Valorous Labor. In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V. I. Lenin" (1970). Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941—1945" (1975).
Member of the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR since 1959.
WORKS ON THE DIRECTOR'S CREATIVITY
Aitmatov Ch. To Be on the Frontline.— "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," September 19, 1965.
Aitmatov Ch. A Sense of High Responsibility.— "Soviet Culture," November 26, 1965.
Aksakov M. The Art of Millions.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," September 29, 1962.
Alenkin B. The Creative Path.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," April 20, 1957.
Artyukhov O. Made at "Kyrgyzfilm,"— "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," September 19, 1965.
Artyukhov O. Chronicle of Brotherhood.— Press Information, No. 20. Moscow, Soyuzinformkino, 1977, p. 31.
Ashimov K. The Birth of Kyrgyz Cinema. Frunze, "Ilim," 1968, pp. 42, 55.
Ashimov K. The Screen of Kyrgyzstan Tells. Moscow, Bureau for the Propagation of Soviet Cinematic Art, 1976, pp. 15—16.
Belokon L. In the Language of Cinema about a Contemporary.— "Evening Frunze," August 29, 1975.
Belokon L. The Kokobay School.— "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," February 24, 1976.
Borov A. Meetings of Friends.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," February 15, 1963.
Grigoryev R. To Write a Portrait of the People.— "Pravda," November 17, 1965.
Grimov Ya. and Kolesnichenko G. Keep Going, Friends! — "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," May 25, 1962.
Gurevich L. Ascent.— "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," May 18, 1966.
Derbysheva L. Hello, Good Person! — "Soviet Cinema," June 20, 1964.
Dmitriev K. We Want to Know More About Them.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," March 2, 1961.
Dmitriev K.— Do You Love Your City? — "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," November 11, 1961.
Kvasnetskaya M. Chronicle of Our Era.— "Week," 1967, No. 2.
Kolesnikova I. An Open Conversation,— "Trud," July 19, 1966.
Klado N. Events and Man.— "Izvestia," October 20, 1966.
Kozhukova G., Shepel V. Maturity of Young Art.— "Pravda," October 26, 1969.
Komarov A. A Great Calling.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," September 30, 1962.
Kopalin I. Our Films Are Watched in Paris.— "Art of Cinema," 1964, No. 12, p. 91.
Kochnev D. Life of Kyrgyzstan on Screen.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," February 3, 1957.
Kochnev D. Kyrgyzstan Sings.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," September 15, 1957.
Kochnev D. A Good Film Essay.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," February 22, 1957.
Kochnev D. To a New Stage.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," May 14, 1958.
Kochnev D. New Film Essays — "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," December 25, 1960.
Kochnev D. For Combat Cinematic Journalism.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," December 3, 1963.
Kochnev D. Day of Kyrgyz Cinema. — "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," October 30, 1969.
Kochnev D. The Search Continues.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," January 17, 1974.
Kubanov L. Portrait.— "Art of Cinema," 1967, No. 9, pp. 50—51.
Kuzin V. Past Life.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," December 25, 1954.
Lever I. From Chronicle to Documentary Drama. — Collection "Modern Documentary Film." Moscow, "Art," 1970, pp. 163—166.
Lippe A. The Truth of Fact and the Position of the Artist.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," April 1, 1967.
Milyavsky B. Close-Up — Man.— "Communist of Tajikistan," May 17, 1967.
Nezhivoy E. Unfinished Destinies.— "Komsomolets of Tajikistan," November 27, 1967.
Privalov D. Love Your City.— "Evening Newspaper," July 31, 1959.
Roshal L. Peace and Play. Moscow, "Art," 1973, pp. 144—150.
Roshal L. On the Way.— "Art of Cinema," December 1966, No. 12, p. 65.
Roshal M. Painting on Screen.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," December 15, 1962.
Ruben I. "I Believe" of Chinghiz Aitmatov.— "Soviet Culture," May 21, 1968.
Saliev A. Hello, Comrade Cinema.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," October 6, 1963.
Slavin K. What is Creativity? — "Soviet Culture," September 27, 1966.
Turabekov M. A Great Fate.— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," September 21, 1956.
Turgumbekov Z. Long Life to You, Tolgonai! — "Evening Frunze," May 16, 1975.
Fedotov V. Prize from Tehran.— "Pravda," January 7, 1971.
Freilikh S., Pogozheva L., Koroleva M., Grigoryev R., Varshavsky Ya. Films of the Indifferent.— "Art of Cinema," 1966, No. 11, pp. 19, 21, 24, 26.
Khazarov A. Right Flank.— "Komsomolets Kyrgyzstan," February 12, 1961.
Shakutin Yu. The Paths of the Shepherd.— "Soviet Screen," 1978, No. 22, p. 5.
Screen of the Festival (V All-Union Festival in Tbilisi), 1972, No. 4, February 25 — "A Man in Love with the Mountains."
Yakutov D. Maturity— "Soviet Kyrgyzstan," November 27, 1969.