Russian Ballerina

Naval Battalion

Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry

Prairie Station

Defeat of Yudenich

Man in a Shell

Stepan Razin

Enemies

Peter the First, Part II

Год девятнадцатый

Соловей

Youth of the poet

Pugachev

Beethoven Concerto

Konduit

I Love

Dubrovskiy

Loss of Feeling

Peasants

Song of Happiness

Yudishka Golovlyov

Shame

Sniper

Locksmith and Chancellor

Smelchak

To the People's Power

War and Peace

Days of Our Life

The Keys to Happiness

Kastus Kalinovskiy

The Poet and the Tsar

Cross and Mauser

The Bear's Wedding

The House of the Golubins

A Spectre Haunts Europe

Sickle and Hammer

For the Red Banner

Miss Peasant

The Great Passion

Glory to the Strong... Death to the Weak...

The Day Before

Brandt

Ghosts

Petersburg Slums

The Kreutzer Sonata

Anna Karenina

Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin January 18 1877 [O.S. January 6] – 28 May 1965, born Blagonravov) 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), A Nest of Noblemen (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. His roles won him a high critical acclaim and the title of People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Gardin published two volumes of memoirs in 1949 and 1952. Another book, The Artist's Life and Labor, followed in 1960.



Vladimir Gardin