Vladimir Rostislavowitsch Gardin

Vladimir Gardin ( Russian Владимир Ростиславович Гардин ; born January 6 ^{. Jul} / 18th January  1877 ^greg. In Tver ; † 29. May 1965 in Leningrad ) was a Russian film director and actor. He is one of the pioneers in the Russian film industry .

Life

Gardin is known as a stage actor in adaptations of Russian classics, including the actress and director Vera Komissarshevskaya . In 1913 he turned to the film and began, in co-direction with Jakow Protasanow , with the filming of Tolstoy's works: Anna Karenina (1914), Die Kreutzersonata (1914), War and Peace (1915).

After the October Revolution in 1919 he became the first director of the newly founded Moscow Film School , the world's first film school. In 1921 he directed Hammer und Sichel , an early Soviet propaganda film from the civil war .

His last directorial work was Tsar and Poet (1927); with the beginning of the sound film era Gardin only worked as an actor. His roles won him critical acclaim and in 1947 the title People's Artist of the USSR . He published two volumes of memoirs (1949 and 1952) and another book in 1960.

Filmography (selection)

• 1913 Klyuch stschastija - R, D
• 1914 The Kreutzer Sonata - R
• 1914 Anna Karenina - R
• 1915 Peterburgskije truschtschoby - R
• 1915 War and Peace - R, D
• 1921 hammer and sickle - R
• 1927 Tsar and Poet - R
• 1928 Kastus Kalinouski - R
• 1932 Serdze Solomona - D (Director: Sergei Gerassimow )
• 1932 Der Gegenplan - D (Direction: Friedrich Ermler , Sergei Jutkewitsch )
• 1933 Dom schadnosti - D (Director: Alexander Iwanowski )
• 1950 On a Secret Mission - D (Direction: Michail Romm )

Web links

• Wladimir Gardin in the Internet Movie Database (English)