Vsevolod Pudovkin, in full Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin, (born February 28 [February 16, Old Style], 1893, Penza, Russia—died June 30, 1953, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet film director and theorist who was best known for visually interpreting the inner motivations and emotions of his characters.
Wounded and imprisoned for three years in World War I, Pudovkin returned to the study of chemistry but was attracted to the theatre. After seeing D.W.Griffiths’s film Intolerance (1916), he applied for admission to the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. There he worked with the Russian film theorist and director Lev Kuleshov exploring the psychological possibilities of editing and juxtaposing images into emotional statements.
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