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{{short description|Soviet film director}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Lev Arnshtam.jpg
| name = Lev Arnshtam
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1905|1|15}}
| birth_place = [[Yekaterinoslav]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Dnipro]], Ukraine)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1979|12|26|1905|1|15}}
| death_place = [[Moscow]], Soviet Union (now Russia)
| occupation = Film director<br>Screenwriter
| yearsactive = 1931–1967
}}

'''Lev Oskarovich Arnshtam''' ({{langx|ru|Лео Оскарович Арншта́м}}; 15 January 1905 – 26 December 1979) was a Soviet [[film director]] and [[screenwriter]]. He directed nine films between 1936 and 1967. Arnshtam was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969.<ref name="rollberg">{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|place=US|isbn=978-1442268425|pages=60–61}}</ref>

==Biography==
Arnshtam was initially interested in music. He studied piano at [[Saint Petersburg Conservatory]], graduating in 1923, and began a career as a professional pianist. He worked as the chief musical consultant for [[Vsevolod Meyerhold|Vsevolod Meyerhold's]] theater in 1924–1927, before turning to cinema, where he became an expert in sound engineering. From 1929 to 1931, Arnshtam helped develop a sound track for [[Sergei Yutkevich|Sergei Yutkevich's]] ''Golden Mountains'', which originally had been conceived as a silent picture; he also contributed to its screenplay.<ref name="rollberg"/>

Arnshtam was one of the screenwriters of Yutkevich's and [[Friedrich Ermler|Fridrikh Ermler's]] Film ''[[Counterplan (film)|Counterplan]]'' (1932). Arnshtam's first independently directed picture was ''Girlfriends'' (1936), a film about the events in St. Petersburg following the 1917 revolution. The picture turned out to be a success. The film's three heroines grow from poor orphans to Bolshevik fighters who participate in the historical turmoil and defend St. Petersburg against the attacking White Army. ''[[Friends (1938 film)|Friends]]'' (1938) portrayed Communist [[Sergei Kirov]] and his political struggle in the Northern Caucasus. Drama film ''[[Zoya (1944 film)|Zoya]]'' (1944) about partisan martyr [[Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya]] won Arnshtam a Stalin Prize in 1946 and a prize for Best Screenplay at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. The score for ''Zoya'', as for almost all of Arnshtam's films, was written by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], his former fellow student at the conservatory. With ''[[The Great Glinka]]'' (1947), Arnshtam turned to the founder of Russian opera; the film won its director another Stalin Prize. The Soviet-Bulgarian coproduction ''[[A Lesson in History]]'' (1957) was about the events surrounding the [[Reichstag fire|burning of the German Reichstag in 1933]] and the subsequent Leipzig trial against Bulgarian Communist leader [[Georgi Dimitrov]]. ''[[Five Days, Five Nights (1960 film)|Five Days, Five Nights]]'' (1960), coproduced with East Germany, tells about the dramatic rescue of artwork from the Dresden Gallery by Soviet soldiers in 1945. Arnshtam's final picture was the biopic ''[[Sofiya Perovskaya (film)|Sofiya Perovskaya]]'', about the woman who was behind the [[Assassination of Alexander II of Russia|assassination of Tsar Aleksandr II]].<ref name="rollberg"/>

==Filmography==
* ''[[Girl Friends (1936 film)|Girl Friends]] (Подруги)'' (1936)
* ''[[Friends (1938 film)|Friends]] (Друзья)'' (1938)
* ''[[Collection of Films for the Armed Forces#2|Boyevoy kinosbornik 2]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Zoya (1944 film)|Zoya]] (Зоя)'' (1944)
* ''[[The Great Glinka]] (Глинка)'' (1946)
* ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1955 film)|Romeo and Juliet]] (Ромео и Джульетта)'' (1955)
* ''[[A Lesson in History]] (Урок истории)'' (1957)
* ''[[Five Days, Five Nights (1960 film)|Five Days, Five Nights]] (Пять дней, пять ночей)'' (1960)
* ''[[Sofiya Perovskaya (film)|Sofiya Perovskaya]] (Софья Перовская)'' (1967)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0036769|Lev Arnshtam}}
*{{Find a Grave}}
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