Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1902-01-04
Deathday
1990-11-13
Place of Birth
Odessa, Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Leonid Trauberg
Biography
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941. Trauberg was Jewish, and was fiercely attacked by Soviet authorities during the so-called "anti-cosmopolitan" period following World War II.
