Aleksandr Ilyich Gintsburg (; 1 March 1907 – 10 March 1972) was a Soviet cinematographer and film director. He graduated from the Leningrad Phototechnicum in 1927 and from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in 1934.

Filmography

Cinematographer Counterplan (1932; together with Zhozef Martov and Vladimir Rapoport) Komsomolsk (1938) Member of the Government (1939) Valery Chkalov (1941) His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (1942) Two Soldiers (1943) It Happened in the Donbas (1945) Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1947) They Have a Motherland (1949) The Skylarks are Singing (1953) Who Laughs Last (1954) Cinderella (1960; also co-screenwriter)

Film director

The Rich Landowner and the Farmhand (1953; together with Latif Fayziyev) The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965; also co-screenwriter)

Awards and honours Order of the Badge of Honour (23 May 1940) Order of the Polar Star (Mongolia) (1942; for the film His Name Is Sukhe-Bator) Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1955) Honoured Worker of the Arts Industry of the RSFSR (1969)

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