Yevgeny Franzewitsch Bauer

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Yevgeni Bauer ( Russian Евгений Францевич Бауэр ., Scientific transliteration Evgenij Francevič Bauer , also in the transcriptions Jevgenij Bauer , Yevgeni Bauer and Evgenii Bauer * 1865 in Moscow ; † June 9 . Jul / 22. June  1917 greg. In Yalta on the Crimea ) was a Russian film director. Along with Jakow Protasanov, he was one of the most important and influential filmmakers in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Life

He was born into a family of artists, his father came from Bohemia and was a well-known zither virtuoso , his sisters were actresses. After studying at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, he worked as an actor, caricaturist, journalist, theater manager, photographer and set designer. He came into contact with film with designs for film sets for productions by Alexander Drankov . Bauer made his directorial debut with Drankow; he shot four films for him and then four for Pathé Star Film Factory before he switched to Alexander Chanschonkow's production company at the end of 1913 and worked there until the end of his life. At Khanshonkov he quickly became an important director of tsarist Russian films and a partner in the production company.

Yevgeny Bauer created comedies, patriotic war films, social dramas ( Stumme Zeugen , 1914) and, above all, psychological melodramas on the subject of "love and death" with tragic results. He made intensive use of cinematic means such as flashbacks, moving cameras, close-ups, light-dramatic effects and split-screen technology. He expressed the inner workings of his film characters symbolistically by means of dream sequences and their dark visions.

In 1914 Bauer worked in Schisn w smerti and Slawa - nam, smert - wragam with the star of the Russian silent film Ivan Mosschuchin . Iwan Perestiani , who later worked as a director himself , was the main actor and screenwriter of his films several times, including in After Tode (1915) in the role of a scientist who perishes from obsessive fantasies about his guilt for a woman's suicide.

Yevgeny Bauer died of pneumonia. In his only four-year film career from 1913 to 1917, he made 82 films, around a quarter of which survived the times. One of his assistants and students was the later theorist and director of the Soviet film Lev Kuleschow .

Filmography

  • 1913: Sumerki shenskoi duschi
  • 1914: Volnaya Ptitsa
  • 1914: The child of the big city (Ditja bolschowo goroda)
  • 1914: Sljosy
  • 1914: silent witnesses (Nemje swideteli)
  • 1914: Ejo geroiski podwig
  • 1914: Schisn w smerti
  • 1914: Slawa - nam, smert - wragam
  • 1915: After death (Posle smerti)
  • 1915: Daydreams (Grjosy)
  • 1915: Tysiatscha wioraio chitrost
  • 1915: Pesn torschestwujuschtschei ljubvi
  • 1915: Oboschschenije krylja
  • 1915: Stschastye wetschnoi notschi
  • 1915: Deti weka
  • 1916: Korolewa jekrana
  • 1916: Schisn sa schisn
  • 1916: Grif starowo borza
  • 1917: Korol Parisha
  • 1917: The dying swan (Umirajuschtschi lebed)
  • 1917: Revolucians
  • 1917: Nabat
  • 1917: Sa stschastem

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SURNAME Bauer, Yevgeny Franzewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бауэр, Евгений Францевич (Russian); Bauer, Evgenij Francevič (scientific transliteration); Bauer, Jevgenij; Bauer, Yevgeni; Bauer, Evgenii
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1917
Place of death Yalta , Russian Empire