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{{Short description|Soviet film director}}
{{sources|date=February 2009}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Solomon Shulman
| image = Sol Shulman - MIBF 2011.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Sol Shulman, 2011
| birth_name = Solomon Efimovich Shulman
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1936|02|20}}
| birth_place = [[Babruysk]], [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic|BSSR]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2017|09|06|1936|02|20}}
| death_place = [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
| nationality = Belarusian
| other_names =
| occupation = Author
| years_active = 1960s–2017
| known_for =
| notable_works =
}}

'''Solomon Efimovich "Sol" Shulman''' (20 January 1936 – 6 September 2017), '''Semion Shulman''', was a Belarusian author, [[screenwriter]], [[film director]] and [[adventurer]].<ref name="time849">{{Cite web|url=https://time.kz/news/archive/2007/09/19/849|title=Соломоново решение|website=Время}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Shulman's first profession was engineering. In 1966 he completed his second higher education degree at the Academy of Cinema in Moscow ([[VGIK]]), training as a film director. From 1963 to 1973 he worked as one of the creators of a popular documentary series called ''Film-Adventurer's Almanac'' (USSR) (artistic director Vladimir A. Shnejderov).<ref name="time849"/>

He is the writer of more than 40 documentary films, five feature film scripts, plus a host of literary and publicist works, published in many countries worldwide. He has led film expeditions into the most distant corners of the planet—from the [[North Pole]], to the summits of [[Pamir Mountains|Pamir]], the jungles of Africa, the islands of [[Oceania]], and the [[deserts of Australia]].

He worked at [[film studio]]s in the USSR, Yugoslavia, Germany, USA, Italy and Australia, and was awarded the Order of Soviet Journalists of the USSR. He was a presidium member of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio, a member of the Russian Cinematographers Union and Russian Film Directors Guild, a member of the Russian Writers' Union,<ref name="time849"/> a member of the [[Australian Writers' Guild]], and a professor at the Italian State University.<ref name="time849"/>

His public appearances always attracted large student crowds in the auditoriums of Italy, England, Germany, Australia and the USA. He lived his last years in [[Melbourne, Australia]].

== Prizes and awards ==
*1964 First Prize of the USSR Union of Journalists at the All-National Film-Festival for the documentary film ''In Broad Daylight'' (''Izvestia'', Moscow, 10 August 1964).
*1971 Prize at the Int. Film-Festival in Czechoslovakia for the documentary films ''On the Slopes of Elbruce'' and ''In Ancient Khiv''.
*1976 First Prize at an Int. cinematography competition in Yugoslavia for the script ''The Disaster'' (''Novosti'', Belgrade, 20 January 1976).
*1998 "Book of the month" awarded by a panel of professional critics for the book ''Power and Destiny'' (''Izvestia'', Moscow, 29 May 1998).
*2006 Sign of Appreciation III degree, (Int. Conference of Journalists).

==Work==

=== Bibliography ===
*1974 ''On the Edge of the World'' ("AS" # 1, Yugoslavia)
*1982 ''Russia Dies Laughing''
*1985 ''Aliens over Russia''<ref name="time849"/>
*1996 ''In the Land of Snow and Volcanoes'' ("New Russian Word", New York)
*1998 ''Power and Destiny''<ref name="time849"/>
*1998 ''The Lucky Country' (GEO #7)<ref name="time849"/>
*2002 ''Kings of the Kremlin''<ref name="time849"/>
*2004 ''We are the Last to Leave...''<ref name="time849"/>
*2004 ''Promenade along the Sotzialka''<ref name="time849"/>
*2006 ''Tomorrow Never Comes'' ([[National Geographic Traveler]] #6–7)
*2007 ''The Nuclear Age''<ref name="time849"/>

=== Filmography (abridged) ===
*1963 ''The Black Sands of Kara-Kum''
*1964 ''In Broad Daylight''
*1965 ''Pamir – Roof of the World''
*1966 ''The Valley of Sumbar''
*1967 ''The Heart of Africa''
*1968 ''The Earthquake''
*1968 ''Where the Ships Winter''
*1969 ''On the Slopes of Elbruce''
*1969 ''In Ancient Khiva''
*1970 ''The Edge of the World''
*1971 ''In the Scythian Steppes''
*1973 ''Alaid – Crater of Fire''
*1974 ''The Land of my Enemies''
*1984 ''Art-Nouveau''
*1985 ''Underwater Children''
*1990 ''Art Treasures of the World…''
*2004 '' The Opal Hunter''
*2006 ''White Man in a Hole''

=== Screenplays ===
*1968 ''The Nuclear Age'' (USSR, Mosfilm)
*1975 ''The Disaster'' (Yugoslavia, "FRZ")
*1978 ''The Silence'' (Australia, Victoria Film Corporation Co.)
*1980 ''The Jewish Ticket'' (Australia, Australian Film Commission)
*2007 ''Colonel Kondo'' (Kazakhstan, Capital Group Ltd. SA)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
{{Refbegin}}
*[http://www.osu.ru/doc/961/article/1236 Газета «Оренбургский университет» – Сол Шульман: правда без жанров – № 43 (856) от 22.11.2006]
*[http://belsu.narod.ru/nlo-nad/index.html СОЛОМОН ШУЛЬМАН – ИНОПЛАНЕТЯНЕ НАД РОССИЕЙ]
*[http://old.russ.ru/journal/kniga/98-07-12/info.htm#shulman Выбор Пушкина]
*[http://www.ffl.msu.ru/nauka/nauka_publications/1/3 ]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050114170920/http://gbrussia.org/reviews.php?id=20] ]
*[http://www.bookle.ru/12432/books_82888/ Сол Шульман: Мы уходим последними...]
*[http://www.mishpoha.org/nomer14/a3.htm ЖУРНАЛ "МИШПОХА"]
*[http://elementy.ru/lib/430565 «Экология и жизнь» №2, 2008]
*[http://www.seva.ru/oborot/guests/?id=463 seva.ru – Севаоборот]
*[http://www.cultradio.ru/doc.html?id=146872&cid=46 Соломон ШУЛЬМАН в эфире радио «Культура»]
*[http://www.1tv.ru/documentary/fi=5040 Документальные фильмы. Первый канал]
{{Refend}}

==External links==
*[http://mishpoha.org/nomer14/ ЖУРНАЛ "МИШПОХА"]
*[http://www.mishpoha.org/n35/35a12.php КОДЫ ТОРЫ]
*[http://www.mishpoha.org/imya/435-zapiski-detskogo-vracha Записки детского врача]
*[http://www.mishpoha.org/n23/23a12.php ЖИЗНЬ СИДНЕЯ МАЕРА]

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