Grigori Roshal

Grigori Lvovich Roshal (Russian: Григорий Львович Рошаль; 21 October 1899 – 11 January 1983) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue.

After graduating from the Tenishev School in Saint Petersburg, he was employed at the People's Commissariat for Education of Ukraine and Crimea between the years 1918 and 1919.

Since 1919 he was an instructor at the People's Commissariat of Azerbaijan, selected as head of the artistic and educational part of the children's playground in Zheleznovodsk.

[4] From 1925 he was director of the third factory of Goskino, the studio Belgoskino, Mezhrabpomfilm and All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration (VUFKU).

In the 1970s he taught at the Moscow State Art and Cultural University giving a course for new specialist-teachers directing of amateur film studios.