Vsevolod Illarionowitsch Pudowkin

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Vsevolod Illarionowitsch Pudowkin, 1920

Vsevolod Pudovkin ( Russian Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин , scientific. Transliteration Vsevolod Illarionovič Pudovkin * 16 . Jul / 28. February  1893 greg. In Penza , † the 30th June 1953 in Moscow (according to other sources in Riga )) was a Soviet film director , Actor and film theorist .

Life

Pudovkin studied at the Moscow University mathematics , however, completed his studies at the beginning of the First World War not decrease. As a soldier, he was wounded at the front in 1915 and taken prisoner by Germany . In 1918 he returned to Russia and initially worked as a chemist, from 1920 he studied at the Moscow State Film School with Vladimir Gardin . His first film, the comedy Schachfieber , was produced by Meschrabpom-Rus in 1925 .

The director became famous with the revolutionary film Мать ( The Mother , 1926). The film adaptation of the story by Maxim Gorky is one of the most important films in Soviet film history , along with the Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein .

Other important films are Конец Санкт-Петербурга ( The End of Saint Petersburg , 1927) and Потомок Чингис-Хана ( Storm over Asia 1928).

In addition to his work as a director and occasionally as an actor (1945, Ivan the Terrible ), Pudovkin significantly influenced film theory with three books and numerous specialist articles. In 1948 he was named " People's Artist of the USSR ".

In 1958, Pudowkin's film Mutter was voted one of the six best films of all time at the international film exhibition in Brussels .

Filmography (selection)

as director:

  • 1920: In the Days of Struggle ( В дни борьбы ) - co-director with Iwan Perestiani
  • 1921: Hunger… Hunger… Hunger… ( Голод… голод… голод… ) - co-director with Vladimir Gardin
  • 1921: Sichel und Hammer ( Серп и молот ) - co-director with Vladimir Gardin
  • 1923: Locksmith and Chancellor ( Слесарь и канцлер ) - co-director with Vladimir Gardin
  • 1925: Chess Fever ( Шахматная горячка )
  • 1926: The Mechanics of the Brain ( Механика головного мозга ) - popular science film
  • 1926: The mother ( Мать )
  • 1927: The end of Saint Petersburg ( Конец Санкт-Петербурга )
  • 1928: Storm over Asia ( Потомок Чингис-Хана )
  • 1932: An Ordinary Case ( Простой случай ) - co-director with Michail Doller
  • 1933: The deserter ( Дезертир )
  • 1939: Minin and Posharski ( Минин и Пожарский ) - co-director with Michail Doller
  • 1941: General Suvorov ( Суворов ) - co-director with Michail Doller
  • 1942: The killers are on their way ( Убийцы выходят на дорогу ) - Co-directed by Yuri Taritsch (after the play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht )
  • 1946: Admiral Nakhimov ( Адмирал Нахимов )
  • 1948: And together again / Three encounters ( Три встречи ) - co-director with Alexander Ptuschko and Sergei Jutkewitsch
  • 1951: ruler of the air (Shukowski)
  • 1952: Three people ( Возвращение Василия Бортникова )

literature

  • Oksana Bulgakova : Vsevolod Pudovkin. In: Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies. 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-010662-4 , pp. 605-608 (with references).
  • Anne Applebaum : The Iron Curtain: The Suppression of Eastern Europe 1944–1956 . Munich: Siedler 2013, pp. 406–411

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personal data
SURNAME Pudowkin, Vsevolod Illarionowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пудовкин, Всеволод Илларионович (Russian); Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet filmmaker and film theorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Penza
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1953
Place of death Moscow or Riga