Education
He studied engineering (graduated in 1955), then worked as a cartoonist in art and humour magazines. In 1960 Mitta graduated at the film directing faculty of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
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Career
Mitta"s birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabinovich (Рабино́вич). Mitta"s career as film director and screenwriter spans from the 1960s until the 2010s. Among the movies are Gori, gori, moya zvezda (Гори, гори, моя звезда, 1969) about actors trying to survive and work during the time of the Russian revolution or the high budget catastrophe movie Air Crew (1979).
Foreign his work Mitta obtained numerous awards in the Soviet Union and Russia.
He supported the Russian accession of Crimea in 2014, even though he also noted that he didn"t like that it serves as a distraction for many from other problems Russia if facing.
Membership
Cinematographers’ Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics]
In 1980, he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Russia Soviet Union