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Filmmaker · Russia

Yevgeni Slavinsky

Died in 1950

Yevgeni Slavinsky (1877-1950), born on 24 January 1877, was one of the pioneers of filming in Russia: in 1908, the Pathé company entrusted him with shooting a documentary on the icebreaker Yermak. A cameraman and sometimes a director, he was the cinematographer in 1916 of a film by Yakov Protazanov based on Pushkin and continued his career after the revolution, notably in documentary, until the 1930s. He died on 23 September 1950.

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