Lev Kuleshov
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 13, 1899, Tambov, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died
- March 29, 1970
- Movies
- 29
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1969 | The Kuleshov Effect | Self |
| 1940 | Our Cinema | (archive footage) |
| 1925 | The Death Ray | |
| 1920 | At the Red Front | Resident of war zone |
| 1917 | For Happiness | Enrico, painter |
| 1917 | Black Love |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1943 | We from the Urals | Director |
| 1942 | Timur's Oath | Director |
| 1942 | Young Partisans | Director |
| 1941 | Incident on a Volcano | Producer |
| 1940 | Siberians | Director |
| 1934 | Dokhunda | Director |
| 1933 | The Great Consoler | Director, Writer |
| 1932 | Horizon | Director, Writer |
| 1931 | Forty Hearts | Director |
| 1930 | The Backlog! | Director |
| 1930 | Sasha | Screenplay |
| 1929 | The Happy Canary | Director |
| 1929 | Two-Buldi-Two | Director |
| 1927 | Your Friend | Director |
| 1926 | By the Law | Director, Writer |
| 1926 | Locomotive No. 1006 | Director |
| 1925 | The Death Ray | Director |
| 1924 | The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks | Director |
| 1920 | The Created Surface of the Earth | Director |
| 1920 | At the Red Front | Director, Writer |
| 1919 | Kuleshov Effect | Director |
| 1918 | Unfinished Love Song | Director |
| 1918 | Engineer Prite's Project | Director |
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