Vladimir Gardin
Vladimir Gardin | |
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Born | 18 January 1877 |
Died | 28 May 1965 | (aged 88)
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
Years active | 1913–1965 |
Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1877 – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema.[3][1]
He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: Anna Karenina (1914), The Kreutzer Sonata (1914), Home of the Gentry (1914), War and Peace (1915, co-directed with Yakov Protazanov), and On the Eve (1915).
After the
VGIK. With the advent of sound pictures, he stopped directing and returned to acting. His roles won him a high critical acclaim and the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1947).[2] Gardin published two volumes of memoirs in 1949 and 1952. Another book, The Artist's Life and Labor, followed in 1960.[1]
Selected filmography
- director
- The Keys to Happiness (1913); co-directed with Yakov Protazanov
- Days of Our Life (1914)
- Anna Karenina (1914)
- The Kreutzer Sonata (1914)
- A Nest of Noblemen (1914)
- War and Peace (1915)
- Petersburg Slums (1915); co-directed with Yakov Protazanov
- Ghosts (1915)
- Thought (1916)
- The Iron Heel (1919)
- Hunger... Hunger... Hunger (1921)
- Sickle and Hammer (1921)
- A Spectre Haunts Europe (1923)
- Locksmith and Chancellor (1923)
- Cross and Mauser (1925)
- Gold Reserves (1925)
- The Marriage of the Bear (1926)
- The Poet and the Tsar (1927)
- Kastus Kalinovskiy (1928)
- actor
- Sniper (1931)
- Beethoven Concerto (1936)
- Pugachev (1937)
- Stepan Razin (1939)
- Russian Ballerina (1947)
References
External links
- Vladimir Gardin at IMDb