| Shaimaa Saied |
A Russian director and screenwriter, born in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He studied violin and piano at the Yekaterinburg School of Music, graduating in 1917. During the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1920, he was road manager of the Theatre of Eastern Front of the Red Army. After the Civil War, he graduated from the Directors Courses for Proletariat Theatre in Yekaterinburg, and was appointed inspector of arts of the Yekaterinburg Regional Administration.
In 1921, he met Eisenstein, and they worked together on several theatrical productions in 1921-24. After Stalin offered him to make a musical comedy for the Soviet people, he completed Veselye Rebyata in 1934, which was a success at the a box office and won an award at the Venice Film Festival. His wife, Lyubov Orlova, starred in almost all of his feature films, such as Tsirk (1936), Volga-Volga (1938), Svetly Put (1940) and Vesna (1947). He died of a kidney infection on December 16, 1983, at the Moscow Kremlin Hospital.
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