A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
I. Shpinel
I.A. Shpinel
Iosif Shpinel
Isaak Shpinel
Иосиф Шпинель
Йосип Аронович Шпінель
Йосип Шпінель
Birthplace:
Belaya Tserkov, Vasilkov uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Bila Tserkva, Bilotserkivskyi Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Born:
October 7, 1892
Died:
July 2, 1980
Art Direction:
1928 Through Tears
1932 Ivan
1936 The Paris Commune
1947 Our Heart
1958 Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Production Design:
1928 Through Tears
1930 Black Skin
1932 Ivan
1934 Boule de Suif
1936 The Paris Commune
1940 Peasant woman
1942 Mashenka
1944 Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1947 Our Heart
1953 The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
1958 Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
1959 Gloomy Morning
1963 Appassionata
1965 Year as Long as Life
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.