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Date of Birth
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16-February-1920
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Place of Birth
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Perm
(Russia, Perm Krai)
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Nationality
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Russia
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Also know as
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Moisey Abramovich Schweitzer, M. Shvejtser, Mixail Sveytser, Michail Schweizer, МоиÑей Ðбрамович Швейцер, Mikhail (or Moisei/Moses) Abramovitch Schweitzer, Mikhail Shveitser
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Profession
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Film director, Screenwriter
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Mikhail Abramovitch Schweitzer was outstanding Soviet film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR
Mikhail Shveitser graduated from VGIK, directing class of Sergei Eisenstein art workshop. He started to work at Mosfilm Studios since 1943. Shveitser was an assistant director of Man No 217 film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film. When Shveitser lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studios only with Mikhail Romm's help.
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