Lev Kuleshov

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-01-13 (71 years old)

Deathday

1970-03-29

Place of Birth

Tambov, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Lev Kuleshov

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 fin...

Acting

1940

Our Cinema

as (archive footage)

1969

1917

For Happiness

as Enrico, painter

Production

1926

By the Law

as Director

1933

1931

Forty Hearts

as Director

1927

Your Friend

as Director

1925

The Death Ray

as Director

1929

Two-Buldi-Two

as Director

1930

The Backlog!

as Director

1926

By the Law

as Writer

1940

Siberians

as Director

1942

Timur's Oath

as Director

1932

Horizon

as Director

1932

Horizon

as Writer

1934

Dokhunda

as Director

1940

Siberians

as Editor

1943

1942

Young Partisans

as Director

1919

Kuleshov Effect

as Director

1930

Sasha

as Screenplay

1919

1929

The Happy Canary

as Director

1917

For Happiness

as Production Design

1918

1927

Your Friend

as Editor

1917

The Alarm

as Production Design

1917

The King of Paris

as Production Design

1918

Engineer Prite's Project

as Production Design

1933

The Great Consoler

as Production Design

1918

Miss Meri

as Production Design

1917

Black Love

as Production Design

1918

Boulevard Slush

as Production Design

1919

Taras's Dream

as Editor

1919

Smelchak

as Editor

1933

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