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. With the advent of sound pictures, he stopped directing and returned to acting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Gardin has received more than 34,042 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vladimir Gardin is the 811th most popular film director (up from 1,084th in 2019), the 1,442nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,778th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Russian Film Director.

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  • 50.39

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  • 23

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  • 4.06

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  • 2.94

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Over the past year Vladimir Gardin has had the most page views in the with 11,344 views, followed by English (4,671), and French (955). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Crimean Tatar (392.73%), Chechen (245.31%), and Chuvash (213.10%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Vladimir Gardin ranks 811 out of 2,041. Before him are Russell Mulcahy, Alain Cavalier, Edgar G. Ulmer, Claude Miller, Edmund Goulding, and Ulu Grosbard. After him are Gulzar, Matthew Vaughn, Ari Folman, Edgar Reitz, Aleksander Ford, and Sion Sono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Vladimir Gardin ranks 111. Before him are Edmund Gwenn, Elin Pelin, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Lewis Terman, Josephine Hull, and Maurice Farman. After him are Buddy Bolden, Giuseppe Pizzardo, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Ugo Cerletti, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, and Noël Bas. Among people deceased in 1965, Vladimir Gardin ranks 120. Before him are Johannes Bobrowski, Adlai Stevenson II, Bob King, Joseph Grew, Mae Murray, and Arthur Holmes. After him are Alejandro Casona, Karl Allmendinger, Albert Gutterson, Julius Skutnabb, Nancy Carroll, and Amílcar Barbuy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Gardin ranks 1,442 out of 3,761. Before him are Lena Katina (1984), Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), Johannes Virolainen (1914), Marina Semyonova (1908), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), and Anton Delvig (1798). After him are Sandra Kalniete (1952), Alexander Men (1935), Oskari Friman (1893), Alevtina Kolchina (1930), Gavriil Kachalin (1911), and Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Vladimir Gardin ranks 32. Before him are Tatyana Lioznova (1924), Alexei Uchitel (1951), Mark Zakharov (1933), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Ivan Pyryev (1901), and Karen Shakhnazarov (1952). After him are Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877), Alexander Rou (1906), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Esfir Shub (1894), Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900), and Pyotr Chardynin (1873).

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Filmography

Kastus Kalinovskiy
Director
Kastus Kalinovskiy - a feature film. Was released on August 14, 1928. The picture shows one of the heroes of the uprising of the Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish people against forced Russification and the restoration of Poland's independence in 1863.
Apr 29o 19286 / 10
The Bear's Wedding
Director
Konstantin Eggert both directed and starred as Count Shemet, cursed by his insane mother’s traumatic experience with a bear to have seizures during which he himself becomes a “bear” on the kill.
Jan 2o 19254.6 / 10
The Poet and the Tsar
Director
Tsar Nicholas I is enamoured by Natalia, the wife of Alexander Pushkin. To cover his tracks, the tsar encourages the suit of Georges d'Anthès, a French officer, with the help of Count Alexander von Benckendorff. Pushkin hears rumours of D’Anthès’s love for his wife and challenges him to a duel. The officer attempts to save his life by marrying Natalia’s sister Ekaterina. Returning from his country estate, Pushkin receives anonymous letters and insists on a duel with D’Anthès.
Sep 20o 19275.8 / 10