Yuli Yakovlevich Raizman (Russian: Юлий Яковлевич Райзман; December 15, 1903 – December 11, 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1964) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).
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Career
In 1924 he became a literary consultant for Mezhrabpom-Rus, the German-Russian film studio. He was assigned as assistant to Yakov Protazanov in 1925 and made his directorial debut in 1927 with The Circle, first drawing attention the following year with Penal Servitude. His next success was The Earth Is Thirsty in 1930, the Soviet Union's first sound film.
He joined Mosfilm in 1931 and in 1937 he won his Stalin Prize second degree for The Last Night, which was also his first collaboration with the writer Yevgeny Gabrilovich with whom he worked for the next 40 years. The film also achieved international recognition winning the Grand Prix at the Paris International Exhibition of 1937.
In 1942, his film Mashenka was also a success, which earned him a second Stalin Prize second degree .
He made a couple of war documentaries, Fall of Berlin – 1945 and Towards an Armistice with Finland, both of which won the Stalin Prize first degree .
