“Ptolemy’s Map” by H.

Prolem:	Republish Herz Frank’s book.

Herz Frank is a famous Latvian documentary film maker. In 1975 he wrote a book exploring figurative style in documentaries. The author describes his own and his colleagues’ personal experiences providing the photographs he made himself. “The Sketches” are aimed at a wide audience—professional film makers, amateurs and all documentary and photography lovers.

Dust jacket featuring shots from Herz Frank’s short film “Ten Minutes Older” that has become a classic

Ptolemy’s Map. A Documentary Film Maker’s Sketches (In Russian)

Online price: 950 p.

≈ 33 US$

≈ 24 €

Release date: September 16 2008

Cast:

art director

Artemy Lebedev

metteur-en-pages

Sergei Fyodorov

typesetter

Rustam Gabbasov

technologist

Ignat Shametko

editor

Yekaterina Andreyeva

corrector

Yelena Migalina

production manager

Alisa Koupchenko

author

Herz Frank

Latvian and Izraeli documentary film maker. Born in 1926 in Ludza, Latvia. In 1947 he graduated military school and finished his course at the Sverdlovsk subdivision of the National Correspondence Law Institute. He served as an officer in the Zabaikalye military district, worked as a journalist and photographer in Vladimir and Riga. Since 1959, he has worked as a scriptwriter and director at the Riga Film Studio. Since 1993 he lives in Izrael and Latvia and gives lectures on film making all around the world.

“Ptolemy’s Map. A Documentary Film Maker’s Sketches” by Herz Frank