title: Aleksandr Faintsimmer
text: # Aleksandr Faintsimmer
  
  Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, Russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russian language social thriller. His son Leonid Kvinikhidze was also a film director.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * The Czar Wants to Sleep (Poruchik Kizhe) (1934), better known as Lieutenant Kijé. Sergei Prokofiev wrote a famous instrumental piece, Lieutenant Kijé, as its main theme.
  * Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) (1938)
  * Tanker "Derbent" (1941)
  * Kotovsky (1942)
  * Naval Battalion (1944)
  * For Those Who Are at Sea (1947)
  * A Girl with a Guitar (1948)
  * They Have a Motherland (1949)
  * Konstantin Zaslonov (1949)
  * Aušra prie Nemuno (1953)
  * The Gadfly (1955)
  * A Girl with Guitar (1958)
  * Night without Mercy (1962) (Noch bez miloserdiya) (Adaptation of a book by Kurt Sandner [de])
  * Far in the West (1968)
  * 50 to 50 (1972)
  * Without the Right to Mistake (1974)
  * The Tavern on Pyatnitskaya (1978)
  * Farewell tour Artist (1979)
  