Lev Kuleshov

Lev Kuleshov

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 emotionally influence the audience, a principle known as the Kuleshov effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Kuleshov has received more than 166,635 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lev Kuleshov is the 168th most popular film director (up from 190th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Russia (up from 377th in 2019) and the 5th 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.