Aleksei Kapler

Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, _ru. Алексей (born Лазарь) Яковлевич Каплер;
Kiev, {Moscow, 11 October 1903 Old Style [Most encyclopedias state an incorrect birth year of 1904; see [http://www.kontrakty.com.ua/show/rus/article/44/4920068261.html Biographies of Alexei and Yakov Kaplers] ] –
11 September 1979) was a Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and writer. He was known as an anchor and director of the TV program "Kinopanorama" (a cinema overview).

He is also known for his brief romance with Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva. It is alleged that the latter fact was the reason for Kapler to be declared an "English spy" and sentenced to labor camps in 1942.

Filmography

*1926 "Shinel" ("The Overcoat") (actor)
*1930 "Pravo Na Zhenshchinu" ("A Licence to Have a Woman") (silent film, Ukrainfilm studio, Kiev, director), shown at the XXV Moscow International Film Festival, 2003
*1931 "Shakhta 12-28" ("Mine 12-28") (director)
*1939 "Lenin v 1918 Godu" ("Lenin in 1918") (screenwriter)
*1942 "Slavny Maly" ("A Good Lad") (screenwriter)
*1943 "Den za Dnyom" ("Day After Day") (screenwriter)
*1957 "Za Vitrinoy Univermaga" ("Behind Show-Window") (screenwriter)
*1976 "Sinyaya Ptitsa" ("The Blue Bird") (screenwriter)
*1987 "Soshedshie s nebes" ("Descended From the Heavens"), Lenfilm studio, is based on Kapler's story , "Two of Twenty Millions".
*1996 "Vozvrashchenie bronenostsa" ("Return of the Battleship") is based on Kapler's story, "Return of the Battleship"

Notes and references