Alexander Galperin
Cinematographer
Birth date:
23 September 1907
Death date:
05 March 1995
Alexander Galperin was born in Baku.
He studied at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography and immediately after graduating (1936) began teaching cinematography there.
He worked in cinema since 1926. He was the first to shoot set scenes in Soviet cinema.
Candidate of Art History (1940), professor (1960), Stalin Prize laureate (1949), Honored Artist of Russia (1968) Alexander Galperin died in Moscow in 1995.
