Arcady Boytler

Arcady Boytler was born in Moscow on 31 August 1893 (1895 according to other sources), into a Jewish family. Trained in the theatre, he worked with Stanislavski and Meyerhold and from 1915 made comic short films in which he acted. He passed through Germany, Argentina and Chile, where he directed his first feature film, then through New York, before settling in Mexico in the early 1930s. There he directed comedies with Cantinflas, stopped directing in 1944, then ran a cinema and died in Mexico City on 24 November 1965.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe Woman of the PortLa mujer del puertoArcady Boytler · 1934Cinema