Vyacheslav Kazimirovich Wiskovsky

Wjatscheslav Kasimirowitsch Wiskowski ( Russian Вячеслав Казимирович Висковский ; * 1881 in Odessa , Russian Empire , † 1933 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) was a Russian film director , screenwriter and actor , a veteran of the Russian Empire.

Live and act

Vyacheslav Kasimirowitsch Wiskowski went to school in his hometown of Odessa and attended the imperial theater school in Moscow since the turn of the century. After graduating in 1904, he appeared in the theater and worked as an actor and director on stages in Odessa , Kiev , Yekaterinburg and Astrakhan . In 1913 Wiskowski joined cinematography, which had hardly been developed in Russia until then. There he began to write scripts, from 1915 he can also be verified as a director. Wiskowski's works are typical of the cinema of the late Tsarist era: he staged dramas, melodramas, historical epics and romances. In the spring of 1917 Wiskowski was one of the first directors to work with the documentary “ Velikije dni rossijskoj revoljuzii s 28.2. po 4.3. 1917 goda “ welcomed the fall of Tsar Nicholas on film.

The rigid effects of the Bolshevik dictatorship on filmmaking and the temporary collapse of cinematography in his homeland, which had become socialist, prompted Wiskowski to return to the theater (1920/21) and finally to emigrate to the United States, where he worked in various areas of Hollywood Film production was active. After his return to the USSR in 1924, Wiskowski resumed his work as a film director. The most notable of his productions, which were created under Soviet rule, was the large-scale sheet of images “ Dewjatoje janwarja ”, with which Wiskowski celebrated the revolution that had failed 20 years earlier in 1925 . Some of his late theatrical productions were well received by the audience, but met with sharp opposition from the state-controlled Soviet press, so that Wiskowski was soon no longer allowed to direct. In the end, Vyacheslav Wiskovsky found only a little activity as an actor.

Filmography

as a director, unless otherwise stated

• 1915: Belaja Kolonnada
• 1915: Durakam stschastje
• 1915: Jelena Pawlowna i Serschka
• 1915: Pervaya Lyubovy
• 1916: Alim, Krimskij rasbojnik (also screenplay)
• 1916: Anton Kretschet (co-director)
• 1916: Vasilisa
• 1916: Lyubvi sjurpiri tschetnije
• 1916: Ne ubij
• 1917: Bataljon perwow marta
• 1917: Bolotnij schwetok
• 1917: Pod oblomkani samodertschawija
• 1917: Wenschal I Satana
• 1918: Posledneje tango
• 1918: Smjat i rastoptan moj duschistij zwetok
• 1919: Zentschina, kotoraja izobrela ljubow
• 1924: Krasnije partisani
• 1924: Tschaj (also screenplay)
• 1925: Dewjatoje janvarja
• 1925: Minaret Smerti
• 1928: Tretja tschena mulli
• 1928: Kabu (also co-script)
• 1929: Oblomok imperii (actors only)
• 1932: Beschenjez (actors only)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 535.

Web links

• Vyacheslav Kasimirowitsch Wiskowski in the Internet Movie Database (English)