Efraim Sevela was born on March 8, 1928 in Bobruysk, Belorusskaya SSR, USSR as Yefim Drabkin. He was a writer and director, known for Popugay, govoryashchiy na idish (1990), Blagotvoritelnyy bal (1993) and Kolysanka (1986). He died on August 18, 2010 in Moscow, Russia.