Biography
Leonid Iosifovich Travitsky was born in 1937 in the village of Volkovintsy in the Kamenets-Podolsk region of the Ukrainian SSR. When the war began he was evacuated with his parents to Tashkent.
In 1957–1997 he worked as a cinematographer at the Uzbekfilm studio, collaborating with directors Zagid Sabitov, Kamil Yarmatov and Latif Faiziev. He shot, among others, A Leaf from a Notebook and Obsessed (1965), Poem of Two Hearts (1966), He Was Not Alone (1969), Blind Rain (1970), Chinara (1973), The Tale of Two Soldiers (1976), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1979), Hunt for the Dragon (1986), Empowered by the Revolution (1987) and Code of Silence; in 1991 he worked on the Soviet-Indian film By the Law of the Jungle.
Awards: in 1966 the prize for the best cinematographer debut at the film competition of Central Asia and Kazakhstan in Ashgabat; in 1977 the Hamza State Prize of the Uzbek SSR for the cinematography of The Tale of Two Soldiers; in 1987 the title Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR.
Career
- Uzbekfilm studioCinematographer · Tashkent · 1957–1997
Awards
- Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR1987 · Uzbek SSR
Hamza State Prize of the Uzbek SSR1977 · Uzbek SSR
Life path
- 1937Born
Village of Volkovintsy, Ukrainian SSR.
- 1957Start at Uzbekfilm
Worked as a cinematographer at the studio until 1997.
- 1966Best cinematographer debut
Prize at the Central Asia and Kazakhstan film competition in Ashgabat.
- 1977Hamza State Prize
For the cinematography of The Tale of Two Soldiers.
- 1979Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
One of the cinematographers of the Soviet-Indian film.
- 1987Honoured Art Worker title
Honoured Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR.
- 1997End of work at Uzbekfilm
His forty years at the studio ended.