Aleksandr Dymshits

Aleksandr Dymshits (Russian: Александр Львович Дымшиц, Alexander Lvovitsch Dymschitz; 12 July 1910 – 6 January 1975) was a Soviet literary scholar, university professor and a lieutenant colonel of the Red Army.

Dymshits was born in to an intellectual family of an engineer with close cultural ties to Germany, and spoke German as his second language since childhood.

After receiving his primary education Dymshits studied at the Institute of Art history in Leningrad and after graduating in 1930 he began working at the Pushkin House.

While on the one hand he advocated the performance of controversial pieces, at the same time he published party-line articles in the Tägliche Rundschau on new art developments.

[5] From 1963 to 1966 he worked as editor-in-chief of the script and editorial board of the State Committee for Cinematography and from 1964 to 1968 he was the head of the department of screenwriting and film studies at VGIK.