FILM DIRECTOR

Lev Kuleshov

1899 - 1970

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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Russian: Лев Владимирович Кулешов; 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1899 – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969. He was intimately involved in development of the style of film making known as Soviet montage, especially its psychological underpinning, including the use of editing and the cut to influence the emotions of audience, a principle known as the Kuleshov effect. He also developed the theory of creative geography, which is the use of the action around a cut to connect otherwise disparate settings into a cohesive narrative. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Kuleshov is the 199th most popular film director (down from 198th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from Russia (up from 407th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Film Director.

Lev Kuleshov was a Russian filmmaker who is most famous for his editing technique called the Kuleshov Effect. He found that when a shot of a person was placed next to a shot of food, the viewer would focus on the food, but when the shot of the person was next to a shot of an object, the viewer would focus on the person.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lev Kuleshov ranks 199 out of 2,041. Before him are Joel Schumacher, Vincente Minnelli, Margarethe von Trotta, Guillermo del Toro, Danny Boyle, and William Friedkin. After him are Blake Edwards, Stephen Frears, Ivan Reitman, Barry Levinson, Lina Wertmüller, and Roy Andersson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lev Kuleshov ranks 50. Before him are Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Jean Moulin, James Cagney, Lucio Fontana, P. L. Travers, and Ramon Novarro. After him are Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Boyer, Sobhuza II, Henri Michaux, Georges Auric, and Bronislav Kaminski. Among people deceased in 1970, Lev Kuleshov ranks 53. Before him are Pedro Cea, E. M. Forster, Eva Hesse, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Erich Heckel, and Sonny Liston. After him are Reizo Fukuhara, B. H. Liddell Hart, Kiyoo Kanda, Jean Giono, Toshio Iwatani, and Bjarni Benediktsson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Kuleshov ranks 381 out of 3,761. Before him are Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), Nikolai Leskov (1831), Eugen Sandow (1867), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), and Vladimir Markovnikov (1838). After him are Sergei Skripal (1951), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Leonid Andreyev (1871), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), Vladimir K. Zworykin (1888), and Andre Geim (1958).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Lev Kuleshov ranks 6. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), and Andrei Konchalovsky (1937). After him are Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Elem Klimov (1933), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Ladislas Starevich (1882).

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