Yevgeni Bauer
Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer (Евгений Францевич Бауэр) | |
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Born | 1865 |
Died | 22 June 1917 |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1913–1917 |
Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer (Russian: Евгений Францевич Бауэр) (1865 – 22 June [O.S. 9 June] 1917)[1] was a Russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter.[2] His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century.
Bauer made more than seventy films between 1913 and 1917 of which 26 survived. He already used the relatively long sequence shots and displacements that would come to be associated with camera virtuosos. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan called Bauer "The greatest director you've never heard of."[citation needed] Georges Sadoul called him "the first true artist in the history of cinema".[3]
Biography
Bauer was born in
In 1887, Bauer graduated from the
Even in these early years, Bauer was attracted to
From the end of 1913 to the start of 1917, Bauer made more than 80 films, of which less than half have survived. Bauer worked mainly in the genres of social and psychological drama (although he also made comedies), such as and others.
In 1917, Bauer and the
Significance and influence
Bauer is considered a leading stylist of Russian silent cinematography and placed particular emphasis on the pictorial aspect of film-making.
Selected filmography
- 1913 - Uncle's Apartment (with Pyotr Chardynin)
- 1913 - Twilight of a Woman's Soul
- 1914 - The Post Troika Races Along
- 1914 - The Free Bird
- 1914 - The Girl from the Street
- 1914 - Her Heroic Feat
- 1914 - Life and Death
- 1914 - Silent Witnesses
- 1914 - Glory to Us, Death to the Enemy
- 1914 - Tears
- 1915 - Daydreams
- 1915 - The 1002nd Ruse
- 1915 - Children of the Age
- 1915 - Heavenly Wings
- 1915 - Song of Triumphant Love
- 1915 - The Vanquisher of Women's Hearts
- 1915 - After Death
- 1915 - The Happiness of Eternal Night
- 1915 - The Thousand and Second Cunning
- 1916 - The Old Wrestler's Grief
- 1916 - A Life for a Life
- 1916 - The Queen of the Screen
- 1917 - Alarm
- 1917 - The Revolutionary
- 1917 - The Dying Swan
- 1917 - For Happiness
- 1917 - The King of Paris
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Twilight of a Woman's Soul
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Nemye svideteli (1914)
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The 1002nd Ruse (1915)
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After Death (1915)
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Gryozi (1915)
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The Dying Swan (1917)
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For Happiness (1917)
References
- ^ Jevgenij Bauer, Kinotv.com retrieved November 29, 2015
- ISBN 978-1442268425.
- ^ Georges Sadoul. Всеобщая история кино. — Moscow, Iskustvo, 1958. — Т. 3. — page 178
- ^ Drubek, Natascha (2012). Russisches Licht. Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino. Wien – Köln – Weimar. pp. 455ff.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Sobolev, R. P. (1961). Liudi i fil'my russkogo dorevoliutsionnogo kino. Moscow: Iskusstvo. pp. 96–111.
- ^ OCLC 187302303.
External links
- Yevgeni Bauer at IMDb
- Short biography
- "Daydreams" - 1915 - by Yevgeni Bauer on YouTube
- http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/category/directors-bauer/
- http://periodika.digitale-sammlungen.de/wsa/Blatt_bsb00051019,00247.html by N. Drubek-Meyer, "Der Film als Leben nach dem Tode (Evgenij Bauėrs Posle smerti, 1915)." Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 60, 2007, pp 457–273.