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Vsevolod Pudovkin
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Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Art Director Born: February 16, 1893 in Penza, Russia Death: June 30, 1953 in Riga, Latvia Biography:A physics and chemistry student in his adopted home town of Moscow, "Vsevolod I. Pudovkin" joined the Russian artillery upon the outbreak of World War I. Wounded in 1915, Pudovkin spent three years in a German POW camp before escaping and returning to Moscow. After working briefly as a writer and chemist, he entered the Russian film industry, inspired by a screening of "D.W. Griffith"'s "Intolerance" (1916). While attending the State Cinema school, Pudovkin worked as an assistant on a number of propaganda films. In 1922, he enrolled as a student at "Lev Kuleshov"'s experimental film lab, where under the influence of Kuleshov he began developing the theories of Montage that would prove so influential not only to his future work, but to the output of many another Russian director. One of Pudovkin's favorite experiments involved intercutting a "passive" close-up of a man or woman displaying no... Full Biography
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