Leonid Quinichidze Biography

Leonid Quinikhidze - Biography, News, Personal Life Age: 87 From the day of birth, Death's age: 80 years old Leonid Aleksandrovich Quinichidze is a nee Fayncimmer. Born on December 21 in Leningrad - died on March 13 in St. Petersburg. Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Leonid Quinichidze was born on December 21 in the city of Leningrad.

Father - Alexander Mikhailovich Feinzimmer, Soviet film director. Laureate of the two Stalinist prizes of the third degree, mother - Olga Quinichidze Um. In the years he worked at the Central and Leningrad Studies of Documentary Films, made chronic films, among which “Bip remains in Leningrad” about Marseille Marso, Benny Goodman and his jazz about Benny Gudman and Eduardo de Filippo, dedicated to the famous playwright.

In the year, Leonid Quinichidze became the director of the Lenfilm film studio, and worked at Mosfilm since the year. In feature cinema, the director made his debut in the year the film "First Visitor". In the year, A. Tolstoy’s novel “The Hyperboloid Engineer Garin” television series “The Krah of Engineer Garin” was filmed. The greatest fame to the director was brought by his musical films: “A straw hat”, “Heavenly swallows”, “June 31”, “Hat” and “Mary Poppins, and going to a meeting”.

In the year he set the film “White Nights”, where he took the effect of the famous story by Fedor Dostoevsky in our time. Quinichidze was the chief director and artistic director of the Moscow State Theater “Music-Hall”, director of the Odessa Theater of Musical Comedy, as well as the artistic director and chief director of the Crimean UAMT. For a year, he was a director at the Novosibirsk Theater of Musical Comedy, and from for a year - the main director of the St.

Petersburg State Musical Theater "Karambol". Then he was invited to the post of artistic director and chief director in the Khabarovsk Regional Musical Theater, but dismissed six months before the end of the contract of the year.

He died on December 21 in the city of St. Petersburg after a long illness. He was buried at the local Shushar cemetery on March 16 near his wife. Leonid Quinichidze's personal life: was married twice. The first wife was the ballerina Natalya Makarova. Soviet and American ballet dancer, choreographer and drama actress. The soloist of the Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Kirov, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, remained in the year in the West, not returning with a tour.

There was a Prima-ballerina of the American Ballet Theater in New York and the Royal Ballet in London, collaborated with many leading ballet troupes in the world. Filmography of Leonid Quinichidze:.