Education
Mikhail Shveitser graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, directing class of Sergei Eisenstein art workshop.
Mikhail Shveitser graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, directing class of Sergei Eisenstein art workshop.
He started to work at Mosfilm Studios since 1943. Shveitser was an assistant director of Manitoba Number 217 film production in 1944. Mikhail Romm was a director of that film.
When Shveitser lost his job after his first movie Glorious Path which was filming in the contestation with a cosmopolitism period, he could be accepted to work at Sverdlovsk Film Studios only with Mikhail Romm"s help.
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (13 March 2000) - for outstanding contributions to the development of national cinema Order of Honour (28 December 1995) - for services to the state, many years of fruitful activity in the arts and culture People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (3 May 1990) - for great contribution to the development of Soviet cinema Honoured Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1965) People"s Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1977) Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prize (1977) State Prize of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Vasiliev brothers - 1989 Prize of the President of the Russian Federation - 1998 Kinotavr Special Prize "for creativity", 1992 Laureate of the Golden Aries Prize, 1995.
Cinematographers’ Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
