Pudovkin Vsevolod biography

The roots of the Pudovkin family are peasant.

Father worked as a clerk, a commander and tried to give his son a good education. The boy was 4 years old when the family moved to Moscow. Vsevolod Pudovkin studied at the gymnasium and had a number of different hobbies-painting, literature, violin game, astronomy, physics, mathematics, chemistry after school, he entered the separation of the natural sciences of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University.

The First World War began in the year, and Pudovkin went as a volunteer to the front, where he served in artillery. He was wounded, was captured in the year. Three years later, he managed to escape from the camp, and at the end of the year he returned to Moscow - already to Soviet Russia. I got a job as a clerk to work as a military registration and enlistment office, later at the plant with a chemist.

In the year, he entered the school of cinematography and still began to act in films, and soon engage in directing. His first works are “chess fever”, the popular science film “The mechanics of the brain” and the film adaptation of M. Gorky’s novel “Mother” Pudovkin was creatively active-he shot films as a director, participated in the paintings as an actor, worked on books about filmmakers and scenario.

The top of his work was the films of the second half of the twenties, among which - “The End of St. Petersburg” and “The descendant of Genghis Khan” his directorial originality lies in the individual, and not just the type, showing heroes on the screen, and a fine study of details in the frame. With the beginning of X, he turns to the biographical genre, and achieves serious success - the film "Minin and Pozharsky" receives the Stalin Prize of the year, "Admiral Nakhimov" - the USSR State Prize in the year, and "Zhukovsky" is making it in the year.

His directorial filmography has two dozen films. In the year, Pudovkin was elected by the president of the stake of VOKS, which carried out almost all international relations of Soviet cinematography on a public and creative line, thanks to which he travels a lot. Pudovkin was also a theoretician of cinema, creating the books "Film Manager and Cinema Material", "Filzenarium.

Theory of Script", "Actor in the film" Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin died of a heart attack on June 30, he was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. Persons of the day of March 17: - Henry Taylor British swimmer, three -time Olympic champion.