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Lev Kuleshov

Lev Kuleshov

Director · Born 1899-01-13 · Tambov, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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Biography

Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Lev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family. At the time he was born, the family became financially broke, lost their estate and moved to Tambov, living a modest life. In 1911 his father died; three years later Lev and his mother moved to Moscow where his elder brother was studying and working as an engineer. Lev Kuleshov decided to follow the steps of his father and entered the Moscow School of Painting, although he didn't finish it. In 1916 he applied to work at the film company led by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. He produced scenery several pictures but with time he became more interested in film theory. He co-directed his first movie Twilight in 1917. His next film was released under the Soviet patronage. During the 1918-1920 he covered the Russian Civil War with a documentary crew. In 1919 he headed the first Soviet film courses at the National Film School. Kuleshov may well be the very first film theorist as he was a leader in the Soviet montage theory — developing…

Directed

  1. By the Law (1926) — Director
  2. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924) — Director
  3. The Great Consoler (1933) — Director
  4. The Death Ray (1925) — Director
  5. Engineer Prite's Project (1918) — Director
  6. Kuleshov Effect (1919) — Director
  7. Your Friend (1927) — Director
  8. Forty Hearts (1931) — Director
  9. Two-Buldi-Two (1929) — Director
  10. Timur's Oath (1942) — Director
  11. We from the Urals (1943) — Director
  12. Siberians (1940) — Director
  13. The Created Surface of the Earth (1920) — Director
  14. Horizon (1932) — Director
  15. Dokhunda (1934) — Director
  16. The Happy Canary (1929) — Director
  17. Locomotive No. 1006 (1926) — Director
  18. The Backlog! (1930) — Director
  19. Young Partisans (1942) — Director
  20. Unfinished Love Song (1918) — Director
  21. At the Red Front (1920) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Death Ray (1925)
  2. For Happiness (1917) — Enrico, painter
  3. The Kuleshov Effect (1969) — Self
  4. Our Cinema (1940) — (archive footage)
  5. Black Love (1917)
  6. At the Red Front (1920) — Resident of war zone