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name: "Mieczysław Weinberg"
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imdb_id: "nm0883260"
tmdb_id: 1330289
wikidata_id: "Q919127"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "8 December 1919"
died: "28 February 1996"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:09:47.456752+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mieczysław Weinberg

## Identity

Mieczysław Weinberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mieczysaw-weinberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mieczysaw-weinberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0883260
- **TMDB ID:** 1330289
- **Wikidata ID:** Q919127
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_Weinberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919127, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1330289

Composer. Born 8 December 1919 in Warsaw, Republic of Poland. Died 28 February 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 8 December 1919, Warsaw, Republic of Poland
- **Died:** 28 February 1996
- **Also known as:** Moisei Weinberg, M. Vaynberg, Mechislav Vainberg, Mieczyslaw Wainberg, Mieczyslaw Wajnberg, Moisei Samuilovich Vainberg, Moisei Vainberg, Moisei Wajnberg, Moisey Vaynberg, Moisey Veinberg, Moishe Vainberg, Mojsze Wajnberg
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_Weinberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919127, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883260/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1330289

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Cranes Are Flying*](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md) (87)

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## Biography

Mieczysław Weinberg was a composer and pianist of Polish-Jewish origin who worked primarily in the Soviet Union. Born in Warsaw on 8 December 1919, he fled Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and settled in the USSR after studies in Minsk and Tashkent. He moved to Moscow in 1943 following an invitation from Dmitri Shostakovich, who had been impressed by his First Symphony.

Weinberg composed more than 150 works, including 26 symphonies, 17 string quartets and around 70 film scores. He is known for his music for the 1957 war drama *The Cranes Are Flying*, the Soviet *Winnie-the-Pooh* animated shorts (1969–1971) and other films such as *Afonya* (1975). He received Soviet honours including the title of People's Artist of the Russian SFSR.

Weinberg died in Moscow on 26 February 1996.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, gramophone.co.uk, classical-music.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), Fi1m 87, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md)

## Complete filmography (66)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Private concert at Gidon Kremer's home* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Passenger* (2022), Music
- *Mieczysław Weinberg: The Passenger* (2015), Music
- *Little Man in a Big War* (1990), Music
- *Our Father* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *The Tale About the Enamored Painter* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *The Theater Is My House* (1987), Music
- *And Then Came Bumbo...* (1984), Original Music Composer
- *Lion and Bull* (1984), Music
- *Donkey's Hide* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Teheran '43* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *The Nightingale* (1980), Original Music Composer
- *Golden Beasts Parade* (1979), Original Music Composer
- *Long Ears* (1979), Music
- *Postage Stamp from the Country of Hondelupa* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *How Ivanushka the Fool Travelled in Search of Wonder* (1977), Original Music Composer
- *For Nothing* (1976), Original Music Composer
- *Upright Magic* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Afonya* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *How the Little Camel and the Little Donkey Went to School* (1975), Original Music Composer
- *Tsarevich Prosha* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *Nylon 100%* (1973), Original Music Composer
- *Responsible for Everything* (1972), Original Music Composer
- *Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Youngest Rain* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *Быль-небылица* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Goodbye, Gyulsary!* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Winnie-the-Pooh* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Tale of the Kolobok* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Tough Nut* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Magician* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Tatyana's Day* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *The Grey Illness* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *On Thin Ice* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Roll Call* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *Boniface's Holiday* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *May and May Not* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Who Is Going to the Exhibition?* (1964), Original Music Composer
- *Little Stomper* (1964), Music
- *1 Newton Street* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Unusual Town* (1963), Music
- *Young-Green* (1962), Original Music Composer
- *Last Salvos* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *The Barrier of Uncertainty* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Funtik and Cucumbers* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *Madmen's Trial* (1961), Original Music Composer
- *You Can't Cross the Bridge* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Yasha Toporkov* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *About the Goat* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Driver Involuntarily* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Inch* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *The Cranes Are Flying* (1957), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/the-cranes-are-flying.md)
- *The Tale of the Snow Maiden* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *The Twelve Months* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Honeymoon* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Forest Story* (1956), Original Music Composer
- *Two Friends* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Tiger Girl* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Танюша, Тявка, Топ и Нюша* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *On the Forest Stage* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Brave Pak* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *The Grandpa and His Little Grandson* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Polcan and Shavka* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Fredek uszczęśliwia świat* (1936), Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![Mieczysław Weinberg](https://film.one/media/person/3875567/gallery-f5715e5b02b8.jpg) Mieczysław Weinberg — Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Weinberg_sketch_circa_1949.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mieczysław Weinberg](https://film.one/media/person/3875567/gallery-1326214b2427.jpg) Mieczysław Weinberg — Image via TMDB

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