Kulte Mark Alekseevich
Film director. Born on April 25, 1896, in the city of Bakhchisarai, Crimea, died in 1965 in the city of Frunze. He worked as a film technician from 1914 to 1915, served in the army from 1916 to 1917, and upon returning worked again as a film technician from 1918 to 1919. From 1919 to 1920, he was in the ranks of the Red Army.
M. Kulte's artistic life began with studies at the Simferopol Theater Technical School from 1922 to 1926, while simultaneously working on the stage of the Crimean Drama Theater starting in 1924. From 1926 to 1931, M. Kulte studied at the cinematography faculty of GKT - VGIK. Later, from 1936 to 1938, he completed another two years at the directing faculty of GITIS named after A.V. Lunacharsky.
M. Kulte's directorial career began in 1934 at RIO (Soyuzpushkino). Then, from 1936 to 1938, he was not only a director-operator but also a screenwriter for "Selkhozfilm" in Moscow. For a long time, from 1939 to 1951, he worked at the Far Eastern Film Chronicle Studio, and then for about a year at the Novosibirsk Film Chronicle Studio. In 1952, he joined the Frunze studio as a director-operator.
Well-prepared professionally, M. Kulte viewed cinematography as a means of popularizing knowledge and technology, serving as a kind of instructor for economic needs. While still at VGIK, he made the films "Living Kaleidoscope" (for Sovkino) and the educational film "Eklermery." In 1932-1933, three more educational films were produced, followed by technical films in 1934-1935, and several educational films at "Selkhozfilm" in 1936-1937.
M. Kulte worked most fruitfully at the Far Eastern Studio. Here he released about 20 educational films: "Manchuria," "On Native Soil," "Amur," "Gold," "Khabarovsk Institute." He wrote the scripts for "Ascaridosis," "Fasciolosis," and "Psychoses." In 1939, his script "Farm of Wonders," conceived as a film comedy, won third prize at the All-Union Screenwriters' Competition. For the film chronicle in the 1940s, he prepared 400 issues of the newsreel "Soviet Far East."
At the Frunze Studio, M. Kulte also worked on the film chronicle from 1952 to 1958 and released the short film "Experience of Growing Sugar Beet in Sugar Beet Sovkhozes of Frunze," and the full-length documentary "In the Valleys of Kyrgyzstan," made at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture of the republic, which received wide public recognition.
Awards include the medals "For Valorous Labor During the Great Patriotic War" (1945), "For Participation in Combat Actions Against Imperialists" (1946). Certificate of the Khabarovsk Regional Executive Committee "For Successful Release of Film Magazines" (1947). Certificate of the Primorsky Regional Executive Committee "In Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Soviet Cinematography - for Successful Work" (1949). Certificate from the Ministry of Culture of the USSR "For Good Work. In Connection with the 40th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution" (1957). Badge "For Excellent Work" (1958). Honorary Certificate from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR - for systematic participation in the preparation and conduct of the Decade of Kyrgyz Art and Literature in Moscow (1959).
Member of the USSR Union of Cinematographers since 1960.
WORKS ON THE DIRECTOR'S CREATIVITY
Ashimov K. The Birth of Kyrgyz Cinema. Frunze, "Ilim," 1969, p. 38.