Dimitri Buchowetzki

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Dimitri Buchowetzki , born Dimitri Boukhowetzky (born October 25, 1893 in Moscow , then Russian Empire , † after 1965 ) was a Russian film director , screenwriter and actor .

Life

After dropping out of law school, Buchowetzki became an actor and director at the Moscow Art Theater. In 1918 he worked as an extra in films by Jakow Protasanow and Alexander Rasumny . After the October Revolution , he first emigrated to Poland, where he starred in two films by director Eugeniusz Modzelewski.

Buchowetzki lived in Berlin from 1919 to 1924 . There he first worked for Carl Froelich's The Brothers Karamasoff (1920), where he contributed his knowledge of the original Dostoevskian ambience. His vehemently presented views on film theory soon secured him the favor and support of avant-garde circles.

After a few minor directorial work, thanks to the support of actress and producer Hilde Wörner , he was promoted to the elite of directors. Buchowetzki then created yoy with Danton , Othello and Peter the Great three artistically convincing, monumental films, with particularly Danton significantly influenced the contemporary filmmaking.

In 1924, Buchowetzki went to Hollywood , mainly at the insistence of Pola Negri . He was signed to Paramount Pictures . His debut film Men (1924) with Pola Negri as a prostitute was set in Marseille and Paris. Buchowetzki established himself as a specialist in local color in other films, including with Adolphe Menjou . However, since he was unable to meet the high expectations of his clients with two failures in 1926, he was dropped and sent to Joinville , where he oversaw foreign-language versions of Hollywood productions. His last work was the British crime melodrama Stamboul in 1931 .

Buchowetzki left Germany in December 1934 with a passport issued in Switzerland.

In July 1936 he was a guest at the Salzburg Festival .

Nothing is currently known about his later life.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. Application for Naturalization, Petition for Naturalization No. 146458, issued in New York on November 22, 1928. Source: ancestry.com
  2. The last entry in the American Social Security Index is from 1967, source: ancestry.com.
  3. ^ Passenger lists on the Hamburg-America Line, ship "Hamburg", departure from Hamburg on December 20, 1934. Source: ancestry.com
  4. ^ Salzburger Volksblatt, July 26, 1936, p. 7.

literature

  • Herbert Holba , Günter Knorr, Peter Spiegel: Reclams German Film Lexicon. Film artist from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reclam, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-010330-4 .

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