The film, honoured. artist of the RSFSR (1968). Since 1918 he worked at K-art of Vienna and Prague, in 1936, invited to the Soviet Union. Worked on K.-senior Mosfilm". Designed by K.-f. "Peat bog soldiers", 1938; "the Error of engineer Kochina", 1939; "swineherd and shepherd", 1941; "Wait for me", 1943; "the Tale of the Siberian land", 1948; "Operation "y"...", 1965
Honored artist of the RSFSR (1968). Graduated from the Higher school of applied arts in Vienna (1915). In 1918-1936 worked for the studios of Vienna, Prague, Paris, where he designed more than one hundred films. In 1936 he was invited to the USSR to work on the film "the peat Bog soldiers" (1938, with A. new people, new ideas). 1936 — the artist-Director to/St "Mosfilm".
Party productions the movie "the Secret of eternal night", "the Tale of time lost".