Aleksandr Pann

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Pann was born on 25 March 1914 in the village of Lozovoye, Kharkiv Governorate. In 1933 he graduated from a printers' vocational school in Kyiv, and in 1940 from the cinematography faculty of VGIK in Moscow.

During the Second World War he served in the 335th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Transcaucasian Air Defence Zone and reached the rank of senior lieutenant.

From 1946 he worked at the Tashkent film studio as a documentary cameraman, shooting segments for the newsreels «Soviet Uzbekistan» and «News of the Day», and assisted cinematographer Vasily Sibirtsev on «The Daughter of Fergana». From 1955 he was a feature-film cinematographer at Uzbekfilm and shot about 30 films, among them «Let's Meet at the Stadium», «Sacred Blood», «Ulugh Beg's Star», «Red Sands», «The Seventh Bullet», «Semurg» and «The Duel under the Plane Tree».

In 1966 he was given an honorary title of the Uzbek SSR. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (1985), the medal «For Distinguished Labour» (1959) and other medals.

He died on 21 February 1993 in Saint Petersburg.