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Filmmaker · Russia

Lev Kuleshov

Died in 1970

Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970), born in Tambov on 13 January 1899, made his first film in 1918. In Moscow, at the beginning of the 1920s, he founded an experimental film workshop, and he taught at the city's film institute, of which he was for a long time the artistic director after he had stopped filming. He married the actress Alexandra Khokhlova, who acted in his films. He also published works on the art of cinema and on direction. He died in Moscow in 1970.

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