Lenfilm

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Lenfilm ( Russian Ленфильм ) is one of the largest film production companies in Russia , which emerged from the oldest film studio in the country. It is based in Saint Petersburg .

history

Today's Lenfilm emerged from a film factory that was founded in 1908 by the engineer Wladislaw Karpinski. It was initially called the Omnium Cinema and specialized in chronicles and documentaries.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the company was nationalized and was called Sevsapkino for several years . In the 1920s, the film studio produced under different names. In the credits of the films of that time, this studio can be recognized by its names: Kinosewer (translated roughly: “Nordkino”), Goskino (“State Cinema”), Leningradkino , Sowkino (“Sow [jetisches] Kino”), Sojuskino (“Union [s ] kino ”), Rosfilm (“ Rus [sischer] Film ”) or Soyuzfilm (“ Union [s] film ”) - in that order. Since 1934 the studio has been called Lenfilm , the first three letters being derived from Leningrad , the name of Saint Petersburg from 1924 to 1991. Also since 1934 until today, the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg The Iron Rider ( Russian Медный всадник / Medny wsadnik ) by the French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet has been the hallmark of Lenfilm .

A number of famous directors worked there, including Sergei Eisenstein , Sergei Gerasimow and Vladimir Menshov . Lenfilm developed continuously from the beginning into one of the leading Soviet , later Russian, film studios and has so far produced a total of around 1500 films.

On August 28, 2007, Vyacheslav Nikolajewitsch Telnow (* 1958) became General Director of Lenfilm . From 1998 to 2007 he was director of the St. Petersburg studio for documentary films .

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