Masters of the Soviet cinema : crippled creative biographies PDF
Preview Masters of the Soviet cinema : crippled creative biographies
MASTERS OF THE SOVIET CINEMA Crippled Creative Biographies Herbert Marshall ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: CINEMA * ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: CINEMA Volume 18 MASTERS OF THE SOVIET CINEMA This page intentionally left blank MASTERS OF THE SOVIET CINEMA Crippled Creative Biographies HERBERT MARSHALL O Routledge g Taylor & Francis Group( LONDON AND NEW YORKI First published in 1983 This edition first published in 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routlcdge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1983 Herbert Marshall All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now- known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-415-83865-8 (Set) elSBN: 978-1-315-85201-0 (Set) ISBN: 978-0-415-72664-1 (Volume 18) elSBN: 978-1-315-85577-6 (Volume 18) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this book but points out that some imperfections from the original may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. Masters o f the Soviet Cinema Crippled Creative Biographies Herbert Marshall UJ-JJ Routlcdge & Kegan Paul London, Boston, Melbourne and Henley First published in 1983 by Routledge & Kegan Paul pic 39 Store Street, London WC1E 7DD, 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass. 02108, USA, 464 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia, and Broadway House, Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 1EN Set in 10/12pt Baskerville by Input Typesetting Ltd, London and printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Copyright © Herbert Marshall 1983 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Marshall, Herbert, 1906- Masters of the Soviet cinema. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Moving-picture producers and directors—Soviet Union—Biography. 2. Moving-pictures plays—History and criticism. 3. Moving-pictures—Soviet Union. 1. Title. PN1993.5.R9M338 1983 791.43' 023' 0922 [B] 83-3347 ISBN 0-7100-9287-3 Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Vsevolod Pudovkin 10 Dziga Vertov 61 Alexander Dovzhenko 98 Sergei Eisenstein 187 Notes 233 Index 247 Plates between pages 120 and 121 1 Portrait of Vsevolod Pudovkin by E. Bicber, Berlin 1929 2 In his film Mother, Pudovkin played the part of a White Guard officer arresting ‘Mother’s’ son Pavel (left, played by Fogel. Next to him is Savitsky) 3 ‘The End of the Demonstration,’ from Mother by Vsevolod Pudovkin 4 ‘Heading the demonstration with the Red Banner’. The mother, played by Baranovskaya of the Moscow Art Theatre, in Pudovkin’s film Mother 5 Caricature of Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director, by Isaac Schmidt. Schmidt was a fellow student with the author in Eisenstein’s group at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography {the VGIK), in Moscow 6 Caricature of Herbert Marshall by Isaac Schmidt, at his German exhibition in 1973 7 Caricature of Herbert Marshall by Isaac Schmidt, Moscow 1962 8 Vsevolod Pudovkin and Herbert Marshall meeting after twelve years, at the World Peace Conference in Paris, 1949 9 Savitsky, the Party Secretary of the Institute of Cinematography, and former Red Cavalry Commander 10 Savitsky as a strike-breaker in Pudovkin’s film Mother 11 Lenin’s body lying in state, from The Three Songs of Lenin by Dziga Vertov- 12 Lenin’s bench without Lenin, in summer, from The Three Songs of Lenin by Dziga Vertov 13 Lenin’s bench without Lenin, in winter, from The Three Songs of Lenin by Dziga Vertov 14 Lenin sitting on his favourite bench in his country house (dacha), from The Three Songs of Lenin by Dziga Vertov Piales vii 15 Lenin on a rostrum in Red Square (behind him is inscribed, "Here will be erectcd a monument to victorious labour’ - eventually it became the Lenin Mausoleum) 16 A squad of Red Army men marching with a banner which reads, ‘We’re going to see the cinema film The Three »Songs of Lenin (1934) 17 Stalin as a Guard of Honour at the bier of Lenin during his Lying in State, from The Three Songs of Lenin by Dziga Vertov 18 Portrait of Dziga Vertov, c. 1920 19 Dziga Vertov, 'The Man with the Movie Camera’ 20 Caricature of Dziga Vertov by P. S. Galadjcv, c. 1920 21 Caricature of Dziga Vertov, 1929. This caricature is a clear expression of the negative mood of Vertov, even the way he holds the camera, as compared with the two illustrations of earlier years 22 Alexander Dovzhenko (left) with Nikita Khrushchev (center) in Red Army uniforms on the Western Ukrainian Front during the war (1943) 23 Caricature of Sergei Yutkevich, Soviet film director, author of the term ‘crippled creative biographies’ 24 Alexander Dovzhenko, self-portrait, profile, in the 1930s 25 Alexander Dovzhenko, caricature by Isaac Schmidt, in the 1950s 26 Alexander Dovzhenko, caricature by himself, 1924 27 Sculpture on the grave of Alexander Dovzhenko in Novodevich’c Cemetery, Moscow 28 Caricature of Sergei Eisenstcin by Isaac Schmidt 29 Caricature of Sergei Eisenstein by Boris Livanov, People’s Artist of the Soviet Union and Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. It is inscribed, ‘To Herbert Marshall, in memory of our friendly meetings in Moscow, London, 1930-62. (signed) Boris Livanov. Moscow, 28 November 1962' 30 Eisenstein meets Paul Robeson with Herbert Marshall at the Belorussian Railway Station, Moscow, 22 December 1934 31 Caricature of Grisha Alexandrov by Isaac Schmidt 32 Bronze sculpture, portrait of Sergei Eisenstein, by Fredda Brilliant, acquired by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR for the Eisenstcin Museum Grateful acknowledgment is made to the National Film Archive Stills Library for permission to reproduce Plates 3, 4, 11-20, 22
The list of books you might like
