Semen Davidovich Aranovich born July 23, 1934. In the 1955 year graduate Higher Naval School of Aviation. He served in the northern naval aviation. In 1965 he graduated from VGIK.In 1965-1970 he worked at the studios and LSDF «Lennauchfilm». His first job «The time that is always with us» (1965).
Since 1971, worked in the genre of game art cinema in the film studio «Lenfilm», placing first film «Red Diplomat». Subsequently, in many of his paintings, he skillfully used a box frame in the documentary and feature films shooting under «documentary» movies. Great creative director was the picture of success «torpedo» (1983). Although the creation of the painting took part disgraced Alex Herman, a tape with a minimum of censorial editing managed to convey to the screens. The painting was one of the most prominent and strident tapes on the war.
Semyon Aranovich was a russian film director whose work included the documentaries "I Was Stalin's Bodyguard" (1990) and "The Anna Achmatova Files" (1989) (about the poet) as well as features like Torpedo Bombers.
Since 1991, artistic director of Aranovich TO «Kinodokument». Since the late 1980's, he again returned to the genre of documentary cinema. Semyon Aranovich particularly interested in the role of personality in history and art, the experience of documentary studies the biographies of famous people.
Since 1992, he presided over the workshop of artistic director and documentary film. He headed the department of film-screen Faculty of Arts of St. Petersburg University of Film and Television. People's Artist of Russia (1994).
Semyon Aranovich died Sept. 8, 1996 after a serious illness in Hamburg.