Andrei Nikolayevich Moskvin

Andrei Nikolajewitsch Moskwin ( Russian Андрей Николаевич Москвин ; born February 14, 1901 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † February 28, 1961 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet cameraman .

Life

Alongside Eduard Tisse and Anatoly Golovnya, Moskvin was considered the most important pictorial designer of early Soviet cinema. In 1921, Andrei Moskwin was one of the co-founders of FEKS, the “Factory of the Eccentric Actor”, an avant-garde artists' association that wanted to break new ground in the performing arts. He photographed experimental short films for FEKS, and from 1925 full-length feature films were added.

The directors Grigori Kosinzew and Leonid Trauberg especially valued the suggestive images of Moskwin. Andrei Moskwin achieved his most important achievement in terms of film history in the 1940s when, together with Tisse, he was responsible for the extensive photographic work on Sergei Eisenstein's monumental biography of the Tsar, Ivan the Terrible, Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 and Part 2 .

After the Second World War, Moskvin was only occasionally behind the camera. He mostly photographed pretentious film biographies. His last significant camerawork was the film adaptation of Iossif Cheific 's celebrated Chekhov film The Lady with the Dog . It was also Moskwin's last completed film. Andrei Moskvin died in 1961 when the filming of Konsinzew's adaptation of the Shakespearean drama Hamlet began . This work was continued by his colleague Jonas Grizjus.

Filmography (selection)

• 1925: Девятое января (Dewjatoje janwarja)
• 1926: Чёртово колесо (Tschortowo kolesso)
• 1926: Those who live on the street (Katka bumasnij ranjet)
• 1926: The coat (Шинель, Schinel)
• 1927: SWD - The League of Great Deeds (С.В.Д.) (SWD)
• 1929: The New Babylon (Новый Вавилон) (Nowy Wawilon)
• 1931: Odna - Alone (Одна) (Odna)
• 1934: Maxim's youth (Юность Максима) (Junost Maxima)
• 1937: Maxim's return (Возвращение Максима) (Voswrtschschenije Maxima)
• 1938: On the Vyborg side (Выборгская сторона) (Vyborgskaja storona)
• 1940–43: Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (Иван Грозный) (Iwan Grozny) (WP: 1944)
• 1943: Актриса (Aktrissa)
• 1944: Простые люди (Prostyje ljudi)
• 1943–46: Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (Иван Грозный) (Iwan Grozny) (premiere: 1958)
• 1946: The surgeon Pirogow (Пирогов) (Pirogow)
• 1951: WG Belinski (Белинский) (Belinski) (Premiere: 1953)
• 1955: biting fly (Овод) (Owod)
• 1956: Don Quichotte (Дон Кихот) (Don Kichot)
• 1957: Tales about Lenin (Рассказы о Ленине) (Rasskasy o Lenine)
• 1959: The Lady with the Dog (Дама с собачкой) (Dama s sobatschkoi)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 567.

Web links

• Andrei Moskvin at the Internet Movie Database (English)