Aleksandr Razumnyj was born on May 1, 1891 in Yelizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kirovohrad, Ukraine]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Life and Death of Lieutenant Schmidt (1917), Superfluous People (1926) and Timur i yego komanda (1940). He died on November 16, 1972 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].