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Vogelman Yuly Moiseevich (1904-1970)

Personal data
SurnameVogelman
NameYuly
PatronymMoiseevich
Birth year1904
Birth placeMoscow
Death year1970
Death placeIbid
SexM

Vogelman (Vogelmann) Yuly (Julij) Moiseevich (1904, Moscow — 1970, ibid.) -cinematographer and film director.

From 1929 to 1961 Yuly Vogelman worked as a cameraman at a number of major Soviet film studios, including Mezhrabpomfilm, Soyuzdetfilm, as well as with French film groups, the Sverdlovsk and Riga film studios, Mosnauchfilm, Belarusfilm, and Tallinnfilm.

He shot several feature films and dozens of documentary and popular science films. Among his most notable works as cinematographer are Duma pro kazaka Golotu (“Duma about the Cossack Golota,” 1937), Gibel ‘Orla’ (“The Death of the ‘Eagle’,” 1940), Pyatnadtsatiletniy kapitan (“The Fifteen-Year-Old Captain,” 1945), Malchik s okrainy (“Boy from the Outskirts,” 1947), Nesterka (1955), Posle shtorma (“After the Storm,” 1956), Krasnye listya (“Red Leaves,” 1958), and Dozhd i solntse (“Rain and Sun,” 1960).

As a director, he co-directed the films Poka ne pozdno (“Before It Is Too Late,” 1957, with Vytautas Žalakevičius) and Drug pesni (“Friend of the Song,” 1961, with Roman Kasesalu).