Aleksandr Faintsimmer
# Aleksandr Faintsimmer

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, Russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.

## Filmography

* The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.
* Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
* Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
* Kotovsky (1942)
* Naval Battalion (1944)
* For Those Who Are at Sea (1947)
* A Girl with a Guitar (1948)
* They Have a Motherland (1949)
* Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)
* Aušra prie Nemuno (1953)
* The Gadfly (1955)
* A Girl with Guitar (1958)
* Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya) (Adaptation of a book by Kurt Sandner [de])
* Far in the West (1968)
* 50 to 50 (1972)
* Without the Right to Mistake (1974)
* The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)
* Farewell tour Artist (1979)
