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The popular German actor, famous public figure Heinrich Greif was born in Dresden in 1907. In 1926, the young man entered the Volksbuhn Studio School, which at that time was directed by the outstanding director Erwin Piscator. A year later, Heinrich began to play in the productions of Piscator, as well as in Troupe 1931 - the agitprop group of Gustav von Wangenheim.

In 1931, the actor will visit the USSR, where he planned to release a movie with Heinrich Greif Fishermen Uprising, but the project was never implemented.

In 1933, Greif will become a member of the German Communist Party, and after Hitler came to power and the establishment of fascist ideology, he will begin to conduct secret trade union and party work. In parallel, he publishes a theater magazine called Rampa. But at home it is becoming more and more dangerous, and therefore the actor emigrates to Switzerland.

There, in Zurich, he played in the drama theater for several years, and in 1935 he again went to Moscow, where he lived for about ten years. In addition to the fact that here Greif is engaged in editorial activities on Moscow radio, since 1939 the first films with the participation of Heinrich Greif begin to appear.

Speaking about the actor's filmography, it should be clarified - his experience in film productions was not so great, all Heinrich was involved in four films. The first of them was the war drama Horsemen by Igor Savchenko, in 1941 the biographical film Bogdan Khmelnitsky was released by the same director, and in 1944 the actor will play the role of Kurt Kager in Mikhail Romm's drama film Man number 217.

The quartet of Greif's productions closes with an episodic role in the military-historical film It was in Donbass (1945), after filming in which the actor returns to Germany, where he begins to play at the Deutsches Theater named after M. Reinhardt, and a little later holds a post in the Department of Culture of the city of Dresden ...

Gernich Greif suffered from a hernia, but the operation to remove it was unsuccessful, with the result that he died in 1946.

Heinrich Greif has brown eyes, naturally blond hair, fair skin and full lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is medium, the hair is straight, gray. Heinrich Greif did not change his hair color, preferring natural. The actor has a medium snub nose and a rounded chin. The actor's height is 186 cm, no tattoos.

Zodiac sign - Pisces (03/11/1907)

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