Vsevolod Pudovkin
Know for: Directing
Born: 1893-02-16
Place of birth: Penza, Russian Empire (Russia)
Also know as:
Sickle and Hammer (1921)
A down on his luck peasant goes to fight in World War I and returns home a hero
Mother (1926)
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958)
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the...
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian...
Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his...
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
The New Babylon (1929)
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries,...
The Living Corpse (1929)
The central character of the play, Fedor Protasov, is tormented by the belief that his wife Liza has never really chosen between him and the more...
The Death Ray (1925)
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
Chess Fever (1925)
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.
Chess Fever (1925)
A young Soviet woman struggles to cope in a society obsessed with chess.
Storm Over Asia (1928)
In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the...
Mother (1926)
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
The Return of Vasili Bortnikov (1953)
A veteran of World War II returns to civil life and the collective farm he once led, only to find his wife has re-married. Based on the novel "The...
Mechanics of the Brain (1926)
"Though not given a New York showing until 1935, V. I. Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain (Mekhanika Golovnovo Mozga) was written and directed by...
Deserter (1933)
A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker...
Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #6 (1941)
A Simple Case (1930)
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin...
Admiral Nakhimov (1947)
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
General Suvorov (1941)
Primarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the...
The Murderers Are Coming (1942)
Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of...
The Death Ray (1925)
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
The Death Ray (1925)
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his...
In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
In the Name of the Motherland (1943)
The film deals with a Russian battalion under siege by the Germans during the Second World War.
Birth of Life (1930)
A film by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Experimental reel later worked into "A Simple Case (1930)"
Zhukovsky (1950)
A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.
The Murderers Are Coming (1942)
Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of...
Locksmith and Chancellor (1924)
The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another. A group...
The Death Ray (1925)
In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924)
An ignorant and prejudiced American’s visit of Soviet Russia goes off the rails after his luggage is stolen and he is separated from his...