The Lady With A Dog : Prix de la meilleure participation au festival de Cannes en 1960
The Rumyantsev case : Prix de la lutte pour l’homme nouveau au Festival de Karlovy-Vary, 1956
Deputy for the Baltic Fleet : Grand prix des arts décoratifs à Paris, 1937
Prix Staline (II degré) aux réalisateurs, 1941
Médaille au Festival de Venise, 1946
Iossif Kheïfits was born in Minsk on December 7, 1905. People's Artist of the Soviet Union (1964), hero of the Socialist Work, winner of the State Prize of the Soviet Union (1941, 1946), he studied in the Leningrad School of Screen Arts and Film Faculty of the Institute of Art History.
From 1928 to 1950 Iossif Kheïfits made films in collaboration with Aleksandr Zarkhi.