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FILM DIRECTOR

Vladimir Gardin

1877 - 1965

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Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (Russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); 18 January [O.S. 6 January] 1877 – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema. He first gained renown as a stage actor in the adaptations of Russian classics by Vera Komissarzhevskaya and other directors. In 1913, he turned to cinema and started producing screen versions of great Russian fiction: Anna Karenina (1914), The Kreutzer Sonata (1914), Home of the Gentry (1914), War and Peace (1915, co-directed with Yakov Protazanov), and On the Eve (1915). After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he organized and presided over the first film school in the world, now known as VGIK. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Gardin has received more than 34,466 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vladimir Gardin is the 1,087th most popular film director (down from 883rd in 2019), the 1,782nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,414th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Vladimir Gardin ranks 1,087 out of 1,581Before him are Kazimierz Kutz, Juliusz Machulski, Hideo Nakata, Céline Sciamma, Anders Thomas Jensen, and Antonio Mercero. After him are Jean Dréville, Louis Leterrier, Dennis Muren, Nelly Kaplan, Tim Miller, and David Koepp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Vladimir Gardin ranks 140Before him are Roelof Klein, Abelardo Olivier, Johannes Schmidt, Bill Robinson, Dudley Pound, and Joseph Stella. After him are Ioannis Persakis, Georges Johin, Leopold Skulski, W. D. Ross, J. Searle Dawley, and Marsden Hartley. Among people deceased in 1965, Vladimir Gardin ranks 160Before him are Eric Backman, Pietro Bianchi, Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, Ethel Thomson Larcombe, and František Langer. After him are Edgar Barth, Urho Castrén, Geoffrey de Havilland, Charles Sheeler, Chris Berger, and Giorgio Zampori.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Gardin ranks 1,782 out of 3,262Before him are Alexander Tikhonov (1947), Natalya Baranskaya (1908), Vera Yevstafievna Popova (1867), Josef Lhévinne (1874), Olha Bryzhina (1963), and Vasili Kuznetsov (1932). After him are Arkady Vorobyov (1924), Sergei Lemeshev (1902), Nikolay Latyshev (1913), Boris Morukov (1950), Peter Lesgaft (1837), and Afanasy Beloborodov (1903).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Vladimir Gardin ranks 51Before him are Aleksandr Rogozhkin (1949), Roman Abelevich Kachanov (1921), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Pavel Lungin (1949), Fedor Ozep (1895), and Fyodor Bondarchuk (1967). After him are Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Alexander Nevzorov (1958), Gregory Ratoff (1897), Kirill Serebrennikov (1969), Pavel Chukhray (1946), and Andrei Kravchuk (1962).

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