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Uriy Andreevich Zhelyabuzhskiy
Юрий Желябужский
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12 December 1888 - 18 April 1955
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Director and operator of popular science and feature films Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky (12.12.1888 – 18.04.1955) was born in Moscow at the end of the nineteenth century. His mother was the famous actress M. Andreeva, who developed in Yuri’s soul a love for cinema. Despite this, Yuri Andreevich studied another specialty. In 1913-1916 he studied shipbuilding at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute. After that, he found himself in the field of translation studies and editing of Petrograd journals, and in 1916
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Director and operator of popular science and feature films Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky (12.12.1888 – 18.04.1955) was born in Moscow at the end of the nineteenth century. His mother was the famous actress M. Andreeva, who developed in Yuri’s soul a love for cinema. Despite this, Yuri Andreevich studied another specialty. In 1913-1916 he studied shipbuilding at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute. After that, he found himself in the field of translation studies and editing of Petrograd journals, and in 1916 became an employee of the film laboratory Martynov and Keneke in Moscow. So he began to join the cinematic art of that time.
During the Civil War and the first years of peacetime, Zhelyabuzhsky filmed a large number of scientific and propaganda films. "Hydrotorf" and a number of other films were devoted to peat mining, the oil industry, as well as biological research.
In 1923, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky became a full-fledged member of Mezhrabpom-Rus and puts about ten artistic and game paintings. It was during these years that popular films appeared.
"Mosselprom's papyrotsa" (1924) and Collegiate Collector (1925). In his works, the director pays great attention to the actors, their selection and correspondence of the character of the game of the storylines of the whole picture. Modern film critics "College Collector" is recognized as one of the best works of Zhelyabuzhsky, which competently conveyed the problem of a small man losing his only treasure - a daughter. The later films “Woman’s Victory” (1927), “A Man Is Born” (1928) and “You Can’t Enter the City” (1929) were not successful, despite the excellent study of the main roles.
In the early 1930s, after the failure with the sound production of the film "Prosperity", Yuri Andreevich stops directing and participates in scientific and pedagogical work in VGIK. /