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Filmmaker · Russia

Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky

Died in 1955

Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky (1888-1955), born in Moscow, the son of the actress Maria Andreyeva, grew up beside Maxim Gorky. He studied shipbuilding at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, then entered the cinema during the war. From 1917 he was cinematographer, screenwriter and director for the Rus company, which became Mezhrabpom-Rus. He took part in founding the state film school, where he taught cinematography, wrote on film technique and then devoted himself to educational films. He died in Moscow in 1955.

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