Alexandra Sergeevna Khokhlova

Alexandra Chochlowa (actually Alexandra Sergejewna Botkin ; Russian Александра Сергеевна Хохлова ; born October 4, 1897 in Berlin , † August 22, 1985 in Moscow ) was a Soviet actress and screenwriter .

Life

Chochlowa was born into a noble family in Germany; She decided early on to pursue an artistic career and made her stage debut in 1916. She was briefly married to the actor of the Chekhov Art Theater in Moscow, Konstantin Chochlow. In 1919 she attended a workshop at the state film school that had just been founded and from then on was inseparable from its director, the director Lew Kuleschow , not only professionally. Shortly before receiving their degree in 1923, the couple married.

From then on, Chochlowa was involved in almost all of Kuleschow's films, initially as the leading actress, who also gave the characters liveliness due to her unusual, but changeable and empathetic facial features, some of which were eccentric. Later she was a screenwriter and co-director several times.

Immediately after joining the State Film School, she worked as a trainer, where she received a professorship in 1939. Four years earlier she had been named People's Artist of the USSR .

After the death of her husband in 1970, Chochlowa acted as the administrator of his estate.

The film historian Ekaterina Chochlowa is her granddaughter.

Filmography (selection)

actress

1924: The Strange Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Необычайные приключения мистера Веста в стране большевиков)
1925: The death ray (Луч смерти)
1926: According to the law (По закону)
1927: Wascha Snakomaja (Ваша знакомая)
1933: Великий утешитель (Weliki uteschitel)
1940: Сибиряки (Sibirjaki)

Director

1930: Саша (Sascha)
1943: Мы с Урала (My s Urala)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Jonathan Rosenbaum : Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia. Film culture in transition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-72664-9 , p. 60.
↑ Annette Kuhn, Susannah Radstone (ed.): The women's companion to International Film. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1994, ISBN 0-520-08879-4 , p. 379.

personal data
SURNAME	Chochlowa, Alexandra Sergejewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Botkin, Alexandra Sergejewna; Хохлова, Александра Сергеевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 22, 1985
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Jonathan Rosenbaum : Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia. Film culture in transition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-72664-9 , p. 60.

[2] Annette Kuhn, Susannah Radstone (ed.): The women's companion to International Film. University of California Press, Berkeley CA et al. 1994, ISBN 0-520-08879-4 , p. 379.