Grigori Kozintsev - A. Moskvin - Dmitri Shostakovich - Leonid Trauberg


Born: 14 February 1901, St. Petersburg, Russia, as Andrei Nikolayevich Moskvin [Андрей Николаевич Москвин].

Died: 28 February 1961, Leningrad, USSR, during the prod of 'Hamlet'.

Career: Started his artistic career in the FEKS (or FEX) [Fabrika Eccentricheskovo Aktyora/Factory of the Eccentric Actor], founded by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, a.o. in Petrograd in 1921. Taught cinematography at the VGIK, Moscow.

Publications: Wrote the essay (with Yevgeni Mikhailov) 'The Cameraman's Part in Making a Film'. Yakov Leonidovich Butovsky wrote the book 'Andrei Moskvin - Kinooperator' [2000].

Awards: Honored Art Worker of the Republic [January 1935]; Locarno IFF 'Best Cinematography' Award [1946; shared] for 'Ivan Groznyj I'.



"Novyj Vavilon"

"Novyj Vavilon"

"Ivan Grozny" [Part 1]

"Ivan Grozny" [Part 2]



FILMS

1925

Devyatoye yanvarya/The Ninth of January [Vyacheslav Viskovsky] b&w; cph: A. Dolmatov & Albert Kuhn

1925

Chyortovo koleso/The Devil's Wheel/Sailor from the Aurora [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w

1926

Shinel/The Cloak/The Overcoat [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; 65m; cph: Yevgeni Mikhailov

1926

Katka-bumazhnyj ranet/Katka's Reinette Apples [Friedrich/Fridrikh Ermler & Eduard Johanson] b&w; cph: Yevgeni Mikhailov

1926

Bratishka/Brother/The Little Brother [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; 57m

1927

S.V.D. - Soyuz velikogo dela/ES.VE.DE./Union of the Great Cause/The Club of the Big Deed [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w

1927

Turbina nomer tri/Turbine No. 3 [Semyon Timoshenko] b&w; 50m; cph: Svyatoslav Belyaev

1927

Chuzhoy pidzhak/Somebody Else's [Boris Shpis] b&w; 63m; cph: I. Tikhomirov

1928

Novy Vavilon/The New Babylon [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; cph: Yevgeni Mikhailov

1930

Odna/Alone [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; made as a silent film, but released in 1931 with music & fragments of dialogue; restored in 1966; music restoration in 2003

1931

Gopak/Ukrainian Folk Dance [Mikhail Tsekhanovsky] b&w; exp short/11m

1932

Gail Moskau/Hail Moscow [Vladimir Shmidtgof] b&w; cph: Pavel Posypkin

1934

Yunost Maksima/The Youth of Maxim/Bolshevik/Maxim Trilogy, Part 1 [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w

1937

Vozvrashcheniye Maksima/The Return of Maxim/Maxim Trilogy, Part 2 [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w

1938

Vyborgskaya storona/The Vyborg Side/New Horizons/Maxim Trilogy, Part 3 [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; 121m; cph: Georgi Filatov

1939

Karl Marx [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] unrealized

1942

Nashi devushki/Our Girls [seg #2 'Odnazhdi noch'yu/Once at Night/Dark Is the Night' dir by Grigori Kozintsev] b&w; short/22m

1943

Iunyi Frits/The Young Fritz [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; short/25m

1943

Aktrisa/Actress [Leonid Trauberg] b&w; restored in 1972

[Right] with dir Sergei Eisenstein [seated] and actor Nikolai Cherkasov

"Ivan Groznyj"

1943

Ivan Groznyj I/Ivan the Terrible, Part One [Sergei Eisenstein] b&w; int ph; ext ph: Eduard Tisse; 2uc: Viktor Dombrovsky; filmed April 1943 & January-June 1944; editing completed in June 1944

1944

Ivan Groznyj II: Boyarsky zagovor/Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot [Sergei Eisenstein] b&w/c; int ph + color seq; ext ph: Eduard Tisse; 2uc: Viktor Dombrovsky; filmed 1943-45; editing completed in January 1946; banned and shelved by the authorities; released in 1958

1944

Ivan Groznyj III [Sergei Eisenstein] draft editing of 4 reels in January 1946; footage destroyed by the authorities in August 1946

1945

Prostiye lyudi/Plain People/Simple People [Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg] b&w; cph: Anatoli Nazarov; banned; released in 1956

1947

Pirogov [Grigori Kozintsev] b&w; cph: Anatoli Nazarov

1951

Belinsky/Belinski [Grigori Kozintsev] b&w; cph: Sergei Ivanov, Mark Magidson & Lev Sokolsky

1953

Nad Nemanom rassvet/Ausra prie Nemuno/The Dawn by the River Niemen [Aleksandr Faintsimmer] c

1955

Ovod/The Gadfly [Aleksandr Faintsimmer] c

1956

Don Kikhot/Don Quixote [Grigori Kozintsev] Sovscope/c; int ph; int cph: Apollinari Dudko; ext ph: Jonas Gricius & E. Rozovskii

1957

Rasskazy o Lenine/Stories About Lenin [Sergei Yutkevich] b&w-c; color ph; b&w ph: Yevgeni Andrikanis

1959

Dama s sobachkoi/The Lady with the Dog/The Lady with the Little Dog [Yosif Kheifits] b&w; cph: Dmitri Meskhiev

1961

Gamlet/Hamlet [Grigori Kozintsev] A. Moskvin died during filming; his pupil Jonas Gricius finished the film; released in 1964