Herbert Rappaport

Directing

Herbert Rappaport

Born — Died

1908-07-07 — 1983-09-05

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Herbert Rappaport (July 7, 1908 – September 5, 1983), known in the Soviet Union as Gerbert Moritsevich Rappaport, was an Austrian-Soviet screenwriter and film director. Rappaport was born in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Jewish parents from Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine). From 1927 to 1929 he studied law at University of Vienna. Rappaport worked as screenwriter, music editor, and assistant director in Austria, Germany, and the United States from 1928 onward. During the early 1930s he worked as an assistant to Georg Wilhelm Pabst. In 1936 he was officially invited to the Soviet Union to internationalize the Soviet Cinema which he accepted and spent the following 40 years working as a fil…

Known for

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12

1942

Life in the Citadel poster
3.8

Professor August Miilas has succeeded in hiding in his private house from the war. He thinks this is mainly caused by his complete devotion to science. As August is not interested in anything that is going on outside his citadel, his family members avoid disturbing him. However, the political situation disrupt August's quietude. Right in the middle of his domestic citadel, the professor finds out about dangerous secrets so that he must give up this apolitical attitude and open up for the new reality.

Life in the Citadel

1947

Air Taxi poster
5.7

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Air Taxi

1943

Comradeship poster
7.0

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.

Comradeship

1931

Stars of the Russian Ballet poster
6.2

An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Filmed in color.

Stars of the Russian Ballet

1954

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show poster
4.7

Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals.

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show

1967

Behind the camera

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #12

1942

Life in the Citadel poster
3.8

Professor August Miilas has succeeded in hiding in his private house from the war. He thinks this is mainly caused by his complete devotion to science. As August is not interested in anything that is going on outside his citadel, his family members avoid disturbing him. However, the political situation disrupt August's quietude. Right in the middle of his domestic citadel, the professor finds out about dangerous secrets so that he must give up this apolitical attitude and open up for the new reality.

Life in the Citadel

1947

Air Taxi poster
5.7

A musical romantic comedy set in Soviet Union during the first years of WWII.

Air Taxi

1943

Comradeship poster
7.0

At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.

Comradeship

1931

Stars of the Russian Ballet poster
6.2

An anthology of three filmed ballets, two written for the film and the third an abridgment of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Filmed in color.

Stars of the Russian Ballet

1954

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show poster
4.7

Young detective investigates a complex crime starting with two movie tickets found in the pocket of one of the criminals.

Two Tickets for a Daytime Picture Show

1967

Black Rusks poster
8.0

The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.

Black Rusks

1972

Andrus' Happiness poster
5.7

Andrus Laane comes from a fisherman's village. He dreams of becoming a captain to sail the seas but fails the entrance exams to the marine academy. By accident he starts working at a big gas plant. Sharp-witted young man with innovative ideas will be recognized. He will also find his first true love. It seems that Andrus has found his happiness, even if not at sea.

Andrus' Happiness

1955

Song and Dance Concert poster
NR

The film, consisting of separate concert numbers of various genres, starred outstanding ensembles and masters of the arts of Moscow and Leningrad — the Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic, the State The USSR Folk Dance Ensemble led by Igor Moiseev and many others.

Song and Dance Concert

1952

Alexander Popov poster
7.0

A biographical film about the life and work of the outstanding physicist-electrical engineer, inventor of radio communications Alexander Semenovich Popov.

Alexander Popov

1949

The Sun and the Rain poster
6.2

Jaak is a young labourer always facing some kind of issues and it seems he always rides for a fall. At the construction work of a new thermal power station, Jaak meets young people from the Young Communist League who won't find faults with him and are ready to help him out.

The Sun and the Rain

1960

A Circle poster
5.4

Police captain Alyoshin is investigating a case related to the theft of opium at a chemical factory warehouse and everything suggests that the offender must be sought among the employees. One of them is familiar to Alyoshin in another matter but despite being confident in his honesty, Alyoshin suspects something is wrong.

A Circle

1972

No artwork available
9.0

A program consisting of individual musical numbers.

Film Concert 1941

1941

Cherry Town poster
5.3

Lida Baburova, a tour guide of an architectural museum, unexpectedly receives a warrant for a two-room apartment in the new district of Zarechye, among the new settlers called "our Cheryomushki". Lida and her father go to inspect the apartment, but it turns out that it doesn't exist. The manager of the house, Barabashkin, conducted fictitious documentation, and the Baburovs' apartment merged with the neighboring one, owned by the head of the construction trust Drebednyov.

Cherry Town

1963

Professor Mamlock poster
6.0

Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.

Professor Mamlock

1938

Professor Mamlock poster
6.0

Based on a play by a German-Jewish exile in Moscow, Friedrich Wolf, and directed by an Austrian-Jewish exile in Moscow, Herbert Rappaport, the film tells with the story of an apolitical humanitarian Jewish doctor and his politically-aware, fascism-resisting son, an intern, as their lives become entangled with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany, where they live and practice. Things come to a head when the Nazi organization takes control of their hospital, and place a rabid antisemitic physician in charge over Mamlock and his staff.

Professor Mamlock

1938

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2 poster
10.0

The collection consists of five short stories: "The Meeting," "One of Many," "At the Old Nanny's," "One Hundred for One," and "The Incident at the Telegraph Office."

Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #2

1941

Poddubensky Ditties poster
10.0

Cheerful, cheerful youth are famous everywhere for their ditties: mischievous and lyrical, thoughtful and sad, perky and poignant, they sound everywhere from early morning until late at night. Who composes them?..

Poddubensky Ditties

1957

No Matter How the Rope Twists poster
8.0

The satirical piece is based on an anecdotal story: the "Thick Rope" cooperative, which twists three thin ropes into one, sends its products to the "Thin Rope" cooperative through the district store's accounting department, bypassing its counters. The thin rope then follows in the opposite direction, bypassing the same legal entities.

No Matter How the Rope Twists

1961

Light Over Koordi poster
5.0

When Paul Runge, a soldier of the Red Army, returns home to Koordi after the war, he sees that, despite the new regime, life in Koordi hasn't changed. It's still a abandoned, uncultured Estonian village, where rich landlords still oppress the population. Runge starts talking about founding a kolkhoze.

Light Over Koordi

1951

Musical Story poster
4.8

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.

Musical Story

1940

No artwork available
NR

A man tries to enter a football field and dreams about a football ballet.

A Fan's Dream

1953

No artwork available
NR

A man tries to enter a football field and dreams about a football ballet.

A Fan's Dream

1953

It Doesn't Concern Me poster
5.2

The director of the Kartashov textile factory was killed in a car accident. The circumstances of his death prompted the internal affairs authorities to investigate the factory's documentation, for which senior OBKhSS inspector Shubnikov arrived from Moscow under the guise of a representative of the Light Industry Research Institute.

It Doesn't Concern Me

1977

Guest poster
NR

A young Nenets hunter exposes a saboteur who has infiltrated the territory of the USSR, who at first poses as a doctor who has gone astray, and then makes the hunter his hostage.

Guest

1939