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Almost forty years of Kazakhstani cinema are concerned with the
name of Yury Vainshtok. He faced Kazakhstan culture for the first time when
doing practical work at Peter Pashkevitch's film "Alitet Goes to the Mountains".
The cast included beginning actors that are now the honorary artists of Kazakhstan.
Of course, Vainshtok could not suppose that he would meet those people again.
 He
lived a hard but interesting life.
Yury Mendelevitch Vainshtok (his real name was Juda, but everybody
called him Yura) was born in 1924 in Warsaw. He became an orphan early in his
life and lived in an orphanage. When fascists occupied Poland he got to Minsk
and further - to Kazan.
Jury Vainshtok could not serve in the army because of strong shortsightedness,
that is why he worked at a plant. After the war he entered a College of Arts
and got a diploma of a film designer.
 Vainshtok
worked in Kharkov, Ashchabad, and in 1953 he moved to Almaty and got a job at
the local film studio. It was there that he met a film director Shaken Aymanov,
a cameraman Mark Berkovitch and other classical figures of Kazakhstani cinema.
 Vainshtok
was a professional, and he worked to the full till his death in 1991. He took
part in about forty feature film and documentaries. Besides, his creative heritage
includes many sketches, landscapes, and portraits.
May the name of a person and film painter Jury Vainshtok remain
in our memory!
Nadezhda Polonskaya
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