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Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illarionovich

Pensa, Russia
16.02.1893

Moscow, Russia
30.06.1953

Degrees:
Career: 1910-1914 studies at the physical-chemical Faculty of Moscow University; 1914 left studies uncompleted and volunteered, sent to the front; 1915-1918 prisoner of war with the Germans; contributed to the camp-theater plays as an actor and scenographer at camp Stargard; 1918 escape from Germany and work at the Chemical Laboratory of "Phosgen 1"; enrollment in the first state-run filmschool as a pupil of Lev Kuleshov and Vladimir Gardin; 1922 joined the "Kuleshov-collective"; active member of Kuleshov’s independent experimental studio in Moscow which opened in 1923; 1925 move to the studios of "Meshrabpom-Rus"; until 1953 direction of 18 mainly fictional films and work with Sergei Eisenstein (from 1927 onwards), Alexander Dovshenko (1927), Ossip Brik (1928), Vladimir Mayakovski (1928), Viktor Shklovski (1938) and others; from 1927 onwards travels to Germany, Amsterdam (1929), London (1929), Italy (1949) and Hungary (1951) for the premieres of his films; 1944 presidency of the "Society for cultural alliances with foreign countries"; teaching of his film theory at the filmstudio of Baku/Azerbaijan (1929), the filmschool in Alma-Ata (1942) and the Moscow filmschool WGIK (1930, 1950).
Selected works: Pudovkin, Wsewolod. 1983. Die Zeit in Großaufnahme: Aufsätze, Erinnerungen, Werkstattnotizen. Ausgewählt und kommentiert von Tatjana Sapasnik und Adi Petrowitsch. Berlin: Henschelverlag
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Sources: Pudowkin, Wsewolod. 1983. Die Zeit in Großaufnahme. Aufsätze, Erinnerungen, Werkstattnotizen. Ausgewählt und kommentiert von Tatjana Sapasnik und Adi Petrowitsch. Berlin: Henschelverlag
Related: See: Pudovkin's "Mechanics of the brain"
Film as physiological Experiment
, article by Margarete Vöhringer
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