Arcady Boytler

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Arcady Boytler (born August 31, 1893 in Moscow , † November 24, 1965 in Mexico City ; actually: Arkadi Arkadjewitsch Boitler Rososky , Russian Аркадий Аркадьевич Бойтлер ) was a Russian film director , actor , film producer and screenwriter who lived in the Soviet Union , Germany , Chile and Mexico worked. He started making silent films and then switched to talkies . He was an important director of Mexican film and worked during its Golden Age .

Life

Arcady Boytler was the son of a lawyer . He became interested in acting at an early age and worked with the recognized theater directors Konstantin Stanislawski and Wsewolod Meyerhold . Boytler made his first films in 1916. He not only directed the three short films , but was also the actor. As a result of the February Revolution in 1917 , he emigrated to the Ukraine in Kiev . There he met his wife Lina Orguina, who later changed her name to Lina Boytler. Arcady Boytler stayed in Berlin between 1920 and 1922 . There he played in two short films that he also directed: Boytler versus Chaplin and Boytler kills boredom .

After moving to South America turned Arcady Boytler 1927 in Chile with Buscador de fortuna his first feature film in which he also participated as an actor. He also stayed for some time in the United States, where he worked with Empire Productions , a production company founded in 1929 that only made films in Spanish. Boytler worked for the company as an artistic director and actor. In the second half of 1929 he made a few short films in the Metropolitan Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey .

Arcady Boytler arrived in Mexico in 1931 . His first film there was Mano a mano from 1932. In Sergei M. Eisenstein's film Que viva Mexico! Boytler had an appearance on the Fiesta scene . In 1934 Arcady Boytler shot La mujer del puerto , which was an important film on the way to developing an original Mexican visual language. The quality of the film is considered to be outstanding. Lut Alba , for example, said that La mujer del puerto could be described as excellent as the first Mexican film. Carlos Monsiváis even saw it as the first truly Mexican film with a special intensity. In addition to the Mexican originality, the critic and filmmaker Tomás Pérez Turrent made the influence of expressionist films from Germany, as well as that of Jacques Feyder and Georges Lacombe, in him.

Arcady Boytler died of cardiac arrest in Mexico City on November 24, 1965.

Filmography

Director

script

actor

producer

literature

  • Carl J. Mora: Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004. Mcfarland & Co, 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2083-9 .
  • David R. Maciel, Joanne Hershfield: Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Sr Books, 1999, ISBN 0-8420-2682-7 .
  • Eduardo de la Vega Alfaro: Arcady Boytler, 1893-1965. Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro de Investigacion y Ensenanza Cinematograficas, Guadalajara 1992, ISBN 968-89528-1-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl J. Mora: Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004. McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2005, p. 39 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Boytler, Arcady
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boitler Rososky, Arkadi Arkadjewitsch; Бойтлер, Аркадий Аркадьевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Mexican director, producer, actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1965
Place of death Mexico city