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. He was sentenced to Death by a NKVD Special Troika under Art. 58-6-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. The verdict was however not fulfilled, by the decision of the UNKVD of Leningrad Gakkel was released on June 11, 1939. - He was married to Lyudmila F. Shmuglyakova (September 18, 1922 - September 13, 2005) - editor at the Mosfilm film studio. Karl Gakkel was buried at the Armenian cemetery in Mocow.

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Karl Gakkel

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