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Max Werner Lenz was born on 7 October 1887 in Kreuzlingen, Kanton Thurgau, Switzerland. He was an actor and writer, known for Bieder der Flieger (1941), Das Weyerhuus (1940) and Schatten am Abgrund (1965). He died on 31 October 1973 in Bassersdorf, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.- Director
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Vladislav Pavlovic was born on 25 October 1924 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a director and actor, known for Trofej neznámeho strelca (1974), Szent Péter esernyöje (1958) and Most na tú stranu (1961). He died on 31 October 1973 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].- Boris Shergin is Russian and Soviet writer, folklorist, publicist and artist, known mainly for stories from the life of Pomors.
He was born in Arkhangelsk. Shergin's father, a hereditary seaman and ship master, passed on to his son the gift of a narrator and a passion for all "art"; his mother introduced him to the folk poetry of the Russian North. Since childhood, comprehended the moral order, life and culture of Pomerania. He drew ornaments and headpieces from old books, learned to paint icons in the Pomeranian style, painted utensils; even in his school years he began to collect and record northern folk tales, epics, songs. He studied at the Arkhangelsk male provincial gymnasium (1903-1912); studied at the Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art (1913-1917). He worked as a restorer, managed the art part of the craft workshop, contributed to the revival of the northern crafts (in particular, the Kholmogory bone carving technique), was engaged in archaeographic work.
In 1922, he finally moved to Moscow; he worked at the Institute for Children's Reading of the People's Commissariat for Education, spoke with stories about the folk culture of the North with the fulfillment of fairy tales and epics in front of a diverse, mainly children's, audience. Since 1934 - at a professional literary work, at the same time joined the Union of Writers of the USSR.