Vladimir Strievsky

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Vladimir Strijewski , also in Germany Vladimir Strischewsky and Vladimir of Strischewski (* 12. November 1892 as Vladimir Fedorovich Strischewski / Владимир Фёдорович Стрижевский in Yekaterinoslav ; † 7. October 1977 in Los Angeles ) was a Russian film director , screenwriter and actor with careers in Tsarist Russia and Western Europe.

Live and act

Born in today's Ukraine , Strijewski is one of the meanwhile forgotten star directors among the Tsarist Russian exiles in Western Europe during the interwar period.

Strijewski began his career in the early 1910s as an actor and made his debut in front of the camera in a four-part crime drama in 1914. Vladimir Strijewski remained active as a film actor until the October Revolution and was involved in various productions by Yevgeny Bauer and Pyotr Tschardynin in 1916/17 . Immediately before the Bolshevik overthrow (1917) he made his directorial debut with Tschjornaja ljubow (Black Love), in which the future film director Lev Kuleschow took on one of his first film roles.

As a result of the accompanying unrest during the post-revolutionary turmoil, Strijewski, who was still on the run in 1919 in an anti-Bolshevik film, joined the entourage of the important Tsarist Russian film producer Iosif Yermoliev . Eventually the film crew reached Western Europe. Resident in France since 1920, Strijewski continued his work as an actor in productions by Jermoliev, who was now called Jacques N. Ermolieff, and shot among other exiled Russian directors such as Jakow Protasanow and Alexander Wolkoff .

Ermolieff, who had meanwhile moved to Munich , took Strijewski with him to Germany and made it possible for him to direct his first film in exile at the beginning of 1924. The result was the two-part film adaptation of a Gogol material , Taras Bulba , which Strijewski (then as Wladimir Strischewsky) shot with a number of exiled Russian actors (including Helena Makowska and Ossip Runitsch ) in the lead roles based on his own script.

In his few subsequent productions, Strijewski was occasionally able to fall back on the most important Russian actor in exile, Ivan Mosjukin . With the dawn of the sound film age, Strijewski's career in Germany came to an end. He stayed in France again, where he was able to make two film adaptations of Joseph Kessel's novels . Residing in Italy during the Second World War , he was only able to make one film there.

Immediately after the end of the war, Strijewski emigrated to the USA, called himself Vladimir Strevy from then on, and settled in Los Angeles. He lived temporarily on North Serrano Avenue. Strevy was naturalized on November 9, 1951. Despite its close proximity to Hollywood, Strijewski / Strevy remained cinematically inactive in the USA.

Filmography (as an actor, selection)

  • 1914: Saschka seminarian
  • 1915: Teni grecha
  • 1916: Wosmesdije
  • 1916: Grif starogo bortza
  • 1916: Marionetki roka
  • 1916: Pora ljubwi
  • 1916: Skaska sinjego morja
  • 1916: Tschuschaja duscha
  • 1917: Schisn trech dnej
  • 1917: Revolyuzioner
  • 1917: Nabat
  • 1917: Sumerki
  • 1917: Chjornaya Lyubov
  • 1918: Beloje i Tschjornoje
  • 1919: Schisn - Rodinje, Tschest - Nikomu
  • 1921: Le sens de la mort
  • 1922: The mysterious house ( La maison du mystère )

Filmography (as a director)

  • 1917: Tschjornaja ljubow (also screenplay)
  • 1924: Taras Bulba, two parts (also screenplay)
  • 1924: Depths of the Big City (also screenplay)
  • 1928: The Tsar's Adjutant (also screenplay)
  • 1929: Gimmicks of an Empress (also script collaboration)
  • 1930: Troika
  • 1931: Sergeant X - The Foreign Legionnaire's Secret ( Le sergent X , also script)
  • 1935: Crime and Punishment (Crime et châtiment) (only screenplay collaboration)
  • 1935: Volga boatmen (Les bateliers de la Volga)
  • 1937: Nuits de princes
  • 1943: La carne e l'anima (also scriptwriting, WP: 1945)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Due to the different transcriptions from the Cyrillic, he was led under the most varied of names in his western countries of activity: Wladimir D. Strichewsky, Wladimiro Strichewsky, Vladimir Strijewski, Wladimir Strischewski, Vladimir Strischewsky, Vladimir F. Strizhevskiy and most recently (as a retiree in the USA) : Vladimir Strevy
  2. ↑ precise life data according to the film archive Kay Less , rudimentary (and partly incorrect) life data in the Russian-language Wikipedia
  3. ↑ according to US Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992

literature

  • Jörg Schöning (Red.): Fantaisies russes. Russian filmmakers in Berlin and Paris 1920–1930. edition text + kritik, Munich 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Strievsky, Vladimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strischewsky, Vladimir; Strischewski, Vladimir von; Strichewsky, Vladimir D .; Strichewsky, Wladimiro; Strijewski, Vladimir; Strischewski, Vladimir; Strischewsky, Vladimir; Strizhevskiy, Vladimir F .; Strevy, Vladimir; Fjodorowitsch Strischewskii, Vladimir (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film director, actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Yekaterinoslav , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 7th October 1977
Place of death los Angeles