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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov
Лев Кулешов
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13 January 1899 - 29 March 1970
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov was born on January 13, 1899 in Tambov. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In cinema he began to work in 1916, as an artist at the film factory A.Khanzhonkov. As a director, Lev Kuleshov made his debut in 1918 with the film The Project of an Engineer Pryte. During the Revolution and Civil War, he filmed chronicles and directed documentary filming at the fronts. In 1919, Lev Kuleshov organized a training workshop at the State Film School,
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov was born on January 13, 1899 in Tambov. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In cinema he began to work in 1916, as an artist at the film factory A.Khanzhonkov. As a director, Lev Kuleshov made his debut in 1918 with the film The Project of an Engineer Pryte. During the Revolution and Civil War, he filmed chronicles and directed documentary filming at the fronts. In 1919, Lev Kuleshov organized a training workshop at the State Film School, where, among others, V. Pudovkin and B. Barnet studied. Of great importance for the formation of Soviet cinema was, in addition to pedagogical, and the theoretical work of Kuleshov - many of his articles are devoted to fundamental issues - film language, editing, filming technology. His book “Fundamentals of Film Directing”, published in 1941 and later translated into many languages, became a kind of result of his theoretical developments.
Probably the most famous film directed by Lev Kuleshov is the eccentric comedy “Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Country of the Bolsheviks”, shot in 1924 according to the script of N. Aseev, which, together with the first works of S. Eisenstein, D. Vertov, V. Pudovkin, laid the foundations of Soviet cinema as a whole. It is worth noting the director’s appeal to fiction – the film “The Ray of Death” (1925), full of experiments with forms. The success of Lev Kuleshov was the painting The Great Comforter (1933), which was based on the facts of the biography of the American writer O. Henry.
Lev Kuleshov died on March 29, 1970 in Moscow.