Biography

Solomon Gershtenzang was born in 1907 in Warsaw, Russian Empire [now Poland]. Solomon is known for Katka-bumazhnyy ranet (1926). Solomon was married to Erna Mashkevich. Solomon died on May 18, 1938 in Leningrad, USSR [now Saint Petersburg, Russia].

First assistant director at Lenfilm. Arrested under Stalin's purges on November 4, 1937, and sentenced to capital punishment. He was shot in Leningrad on May 18, 1938. (His wife, actress Erna-Melania Ivanovna Mashkevich, was exiled to Kazakhstan for 5 years.).