American Cinematographer - November 1990 - 39

Kolsaty with
one

of his five

State Awards,
the Soviet

equivalent of
the Academy
Awards.

Soviet

Cinematographer Survives Stalin
by Jean Oppenheimer

Hestroke
survived
of luck;
Stalin's
by an extraordinary
his purges
award-winning
films span
the entire history of Soviet cinema; and in 1982, at
the age of 77, Arkady Koltsaty became perhaps the
most renowned Soviet filmmaker ever to emigrate
to the United States. Rather than admit that so

a figure had chosen to leave, the
Brezhnev government spread word through the
Moscow film community that the legendary cinema¬

prominent

tographer had died.
Koltsaty shrugs enigmatically when asked
about the premature announcement of his death. It's
difficult to imagine this small, non-threatening fig¬
ure, with his ready smile and easy laugh, at the
center of a political firestorm. Alert and energetic at
85, Koltsaty displays an enviable memory, recalling

istry at the University of Leningrad. He spent a day
on a movie set
watching the famous Soviet director
Leonid Trauberg, whose younger brother Ilyusha
was
Arkady's best friend. Koltsaty thought the di¬
rector's job looked boring; all he did was talk. But
the young science student was fascinated with what
the cameraman was doing. He decided on the spot
to become a cameraman himself.

In

effort to

help his friend achieve this
goal, Ilyusha, who later became a director in his own
right, told a local theater owner that Koltsaty was
an experienced camera assistant. The man handed
Koltsaty a broken camera and told him to fix it. The
only thing Koltsaty knew about a camera was that
you shouldn't open it when it's running. He didn't
an

than six decades ago.
Born in Odessa in 1905,

know how to take the apparatus apart to ex¬
amine it. But, blessed with ingenuity and confidence,
he was sure he could figure it out. "Looking at the
outside of the camera, I saw copper circles," Koltsaty

enchanted with

recalls. "I

names

and details from films he worked

November 1990

on more

Koltsaty became
filmmaking while studying chem¬

even

American

placed a five-cent piece in these circles and

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