Naum Kleiman

Naum Kleiman Нау́м Кле́йман
Naum Kleiman (2024)
Born	(1937-12-01) 1 December 1937 Chişinău, Bessarabia
Occupation(s)	film critic, film historian

Naum Ikhilievich Kleiman (Russian: Нау́м Ихи́льевич Кле́йман; born 1937) is a historian of cinema, Russian film critic, specialist in Sergei Eisenstein, former manager of the Moscow State Central Cinema Museum, Eisenstein-Centre director, actor and filmmaker. He was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival in 1993 and a member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1991. He is a FIPRESCI laureate.

Biography

Kleiman was born on 1 December 1937 in Chisinau into the family of Ikhil Mendelevich Kleiman (1909-1988), a shoe designer, and Sofia Mikhailovna Kleiman (1910-2003), a seamstress. Her mother was from Bolhrad in southern Bessarabia, her father from the Jewish agricultural colony of Basarabeasca (Romanovka) . Grandfather, Mendel Ikhilevich Kleiman (1880-1943), was deported with the June deportation in 1941, died in a camp two years later .

During the Great Patriotic War Naum Ikhilievich was in evacuation with his mother and grandmother in Andijan, and then in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, where his father worked. In 1946 the family returned to Kishinev. In 1949, together with his parents Kleiman was deported to Siberia - first to forced labour in the taiga, then to Guryevsk. In 1955 the family was allowed to leave the special settlement.

For a year he studied at the mathematics department of the Kyrgyz National University in Bishkek . In 1956 he entered the film studies department of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (workshop of N. A. Lebedev and E. M. Smirnova), which he graduated from in 1961.

In 1961-1966 Kleiman was a researcher and senior researcher in the department of scientific processing of Russian film stock of the USSR Gosfilmofond. In 1965 he was elected scientific secretary of the Commission on the Creative Heritage of S. M. Eisenstein, participated in the organisation of the Scientific Memorial Cabinet of Eisenstein at the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. He was one of the compilers and authors of the commentary of the six-volume book "Eisenstein's Selected Works" (1964-1971). In 1967-1986 - Head of the Scientific and Memorial Cabinet of S. M. Eisenstein at the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR, editor of the All-Union Bureau of Propaganda of Cinematography.

In 1967 Kleiman participated in the restoration of Eisenstein's destroyed film "Bezhin Meadow" as a director (together with Sergei Yutkevich) and scientific adviser. Scientific adviser on the reconstruction of Eisenstein's films "Old and New" ("The General Line"), "October: Ten Days That Shook the World", "Battleship Potemkin".

Since 1987 he was Head of the museum department of the All-Union Union of Cinematographers of the USSR "Kinocentre", since 1989 - Head of the Central Cinema Museum of the All-Union Union of Cinematographers of the USSR "Kinocentre", from 1992 to 2014 - Director of the State Central Cinema Museum .

In 1990, Kleiman was one of the consultants (together with Vladimir Antropov and Yefim Levin) for Vadim Chubasov's film "S. M. Eisenstein: Lessons in Montage. " .

External links

• Naum Kleiman at IMDb
• Biography
• The Moscow State Central Cinema Museum on fipresci.org
• The Moscow State Central Cinema Museum
• The Moscow State Central Cinema Museum's friends
• Naum Kleiman (Cinema Museum, 2003-2004)