Victor Nord

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Benediktovich and the family name is Nord-Levin.

Victor Benediktovich Nord-Levin (Hebrew: ויקטור בנדיקטוביץ׳ נורד־לוין; Ukrainian: Ві́ктор Бенеди́ктович Норд-Ле́він, romanized: Viktor Benedyktovych Nord-Levin; born 1945 in Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union)[1] is an Israeli-American independent filmmaker best known for his 1977 Israeli directorial debut The Garden that represented Israel at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, the 1977 San Francisco International Film Festival, and the 1978 Toronto Waterfront International Film Festival.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Biography

Melanie Griffith and Shaike Ophir in The Garden (Photographer: Yoni Hamenachem [he])

Screenwriter Yosef Avisar [he] next to The Garden poster (September 2003)

Nord, son of actress Evgeniya Mikhailovna Rostova-Nord née Goldenberg and notable Soviet theatre director and actor Benedict Nord [ru; uk], immigrated to Israel from the Soviet Union in April 1973 after graduating with honors in 1971 from |All-Union State Institute of Cinematography] also known as the Moscow Film School]. He started working as assistant on film stages in Moscow while only sixteen and decided to immigrate to Israel after encountering difficulties related to political censorship and antisemitism with directing his first own films in the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, he managed to work briefly as assistant director on Sergei Bondarchuk’s, 1970 film Waterloo, and for one year on Aleksei Yuryevich German’s 1971 film Trial on the Road. Since 1982 he resides in New York, New York.[14][15][16][17] More recently he worked as editor on "The Russians Are Here"Frontline. In 1984 (the show Captive in El Salvador he edited was awarded an Emmy Award); as director of dialogue he worked on The Comrades, 12-episode series (WGBH-TV-Boston). Nord is also the author of nine screenplays (2004–2018) written especially for television series. He is married to Elena S. Nord-Levin née Shevelyov and is father to Benny Nord-Levin (born 2001) and David Nord-Levin (born 2007).

References

1. The Garden. In: Variety’s Film Reviews, Volume 14: 1975–1977. New York, New York: Cambridge Information Group’s R.R. Bowker and RELX Group’s Reed Publishing. July 1983. ISBN 9780835227940. OCLC 489584930. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
2. Gross, Natan [he; pl]. גן־עדן בירושלים [Heaven in Jerusalem] (PDF). Al HaMishmar (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv-Yafo: Hashomer Hatzair and Mapam. 1977. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
3. Fainaru, Edna; Fainaru, Dan (1977). הכל בגלל מלאך אחד [All Because of One Angel] (PDF). HaOlam HaZeh (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv-Yafo. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
4. Rav Nof, Zeev [he]. הגן [The Garden] (PDF). Davar (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv-Yafo: Histadrut’s Society of Workers [he]. May 1977. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
5. Sullivan, Monica (July 1999). VideoHound's Independent Film Guide. Detroit, Michigan: Cengage’s Gale and Visible Ink Press. p. xlix. ISBN 9781578590186. OCLC 41086777. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
6. Anderman, Nirit [he]. אנדרמן, נירית (15 June 2012). הצצה לארכיון של בכיר צלמי הסטילס בקולנוע הישראלי [A Peek Into the Archive of the Chief Israeli Unit Still Photographer]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv-Yafo: M. DuMont Schauberg and Haaretz Group [ar; de; he]. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
7. Matityahu, Reut (9 October 2011). הצלם הישראלי שהוליווד אוהבת [The Israeli Photographer Hollywood Likes]. Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ynet and LaIsha’s Xnet (in Hebrew). Rishon LeZion: Yedioth Ahronoth Group. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
8. Nord-Levin, Victor Benediktovich (9 September 2009). הגן [The Garden] (DVD) (in Hebrew). Ramat HaSharon: NMC Music’s Globus United King Films. OCLC 62564050. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
9. Almog, Prof. Dr. Oz [he] פרידה משרוליק: שינוי ערכים באליטה הישראלית [Farewell to “Srulik:” Changing Values Among the Israeli Elite] (in Hebrew). Vol. II. Haifa and Or Yehuda: University of Haifa’s Haifa University Press [he] and Kinneret Zmora-Bitan [he] Dvir [he]. 2004. p. 1338n.411. ISBN 9789653110519. OCLC 56795640. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
10. Mochiach, Nachum [he]. עושים סצינות [Making Scenes]. Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ynet (in Hebrew). Rishon LeZion: Yedioth Ahronoth Group. 24 April 2001. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
11. Kronish, Amy W. (1996). World Cinema: Israel. World Cinema, Volume 6, Series Editor: Frank Bren. Trowbridge, Madison, New Jersey, Teaneck, New Jersey, and Cranbury, New Jersey: Flicks Books, Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp.’s Associated University Presses, and Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. pp. 82 and 213. ISBN 9780948911705. OCLC 568122092. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
12. Gross, Natan (1991). הסרט העברי – פרקים בתולדות הראינוע והקולנוע בישראל: 1896–1991 [The Hebrew Film – Chapters in the Annals of Silent and Sound Cinema in Israel: 1896–1991] (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Natan and Yaacov Gross [he]. p. 420. OCLC 27221790. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
13. Weldon, Michael J. (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide. London: Titan Entertainment Group’s Titan Publishing Group. p. 227. ISBN 9781852867706. OCLC 877265119. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
14. Okansky, Yael (6 July 1975). כל ההתחלות קשות מאד: שיחה עם ויקטור נורד [All Beginnings Are Very Difficult: Conversation With Victor Nord] (PDF). Kolnoa (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv-Yafo and Jerusalem: Tel Aviv University, Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Steve Tisch School of Film and Television [he] and Ministry of Education’s Israel Film Institute [he]. pp. 42–45. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
15. Mochiach, Nachum (29 January 1982). מגף הסרטים הסובייטי [The Soviet Cinematic Scourge (Part I)]. HaMevaker, Volume 1, Number 1 (in Hebrew). Los Angeles, California: Learaf Incorporation. p. 20. Retrieved 9 March 2018. Mochiach, Nachum (29 January 1982). מגף הסרטים הסובייטי [The Soviet Cinematic Scourge (Part II)]. HaMevaker, Volume 1, Number 1 (in Hebrew). Los Angeles, California: Learaf Incorporation. p. 21. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
16. Argaman Barnea, Amalia [he]. המלאך העירום של חכם אברהם [Abraham’s Naked Angel] (PDF). Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew). Rishon LeZion: Yedioth Ahronoth Group. 10 May 1977. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
17. Schnitzer, Meir [he]. הקולנוע הישראלי: כל העובדות, כל העלילות, כל הבמאים וגם ביקורות [Israeli Cinema: All Facts, All Plots, All Directors, and All Critiques] (in Hebrew). Or Yehuda and Jerusalem: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Jerusalem Cinematheque’s Israel Film Archive, and Ministry of Education’s Israel Film Institute. 1994. p. 176. ISBN 9789652863782. OCLC 31817606. Retrieved 4 April 2018.

External links

• Victor Nord at IMDb
• Victor Nord at Rotten Tomatoes