Karl Gakkel

Soviet filmmaker Karl Alfredovich Gakkel worked as leading director at the film studios "Lenfilm" in Leningrad, "Kazakhfilm" in Alma-Aty and at the Film Studio. A. Dovzhenko in Kiev. Previously he worked as second director at the Mosfilm film studio in Moscow. - Gakkel was arrested in Stalin's purges by the NKVD Security Police on April 1, 1938. ...