Zinoviy Roizman

Zinoviy Aleksandrovich Roizman was born on 11 September 1941 in Odesa and died on 6 June 2022 in Moscow. He was a film director, screenwriter, playwright and writer.

In 1964 he graduated from the directing department of the Ostrovsky Tashkent Theatre and Art Institute (evening department, workshop of A. I. Ginzburg). In 1963 he was a director and actor at the republican puppet theatre in Tashkent, and from 1964 a director at the Uzbekfilm studio, where he made animated films and items for the satirical film magazine Nashtar and in the mid-1960s worked as second director on feature films.

His first feature film was House under the Scorching Sun (1977). He followed it with In the Rapids of the Raging River (1980), Meeting at High Snows (1981), Password: Hotel Regina (1983), Constellation of Love (1985), Authorised by the Revolution (1987) and Code of Silence (1989).

In 1992 he left Uzbekistan for Moscow, where he first worked as a loader at the Northern Market and then as a dubbing director at NTV. He returned to directing in 1998 with the multi-part Chekhov and Co. and went on to make the series Empire under Attack, Hunt on the Asphalt, Everyone Has His Own War, Snipers: Love under the Crosshairs, Fighters: The Last Battle, Silver Forest and others.

He received the Medal of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 2nd class (2005), and the title Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation (2018).