P. Petrov-Bytov
Pavel Petrov-Bytov (1895-1960), set designer and film-maker, had a major name in the Soviet Union in the twenties and thirties; his Pougatchev (1937) measured up to the work of other revolutionary film-makers such as Eisenstein and Pudovkin. His 1929 article 'We have no Soviet Cinema' was a fierce criticism of the effectiveness of revolutionary avant-garde film.
Filmography
Na jizn i na smert/A la vie, a la mort (1925), Volskié bountari/Les révoltes de la Volga (1926), Vodovorot/Le tourbillon (1927), Pravo na Jiszn/Le droit à la vie (1928), Kaïn i Artem (1929), Povorot/Le tournant (1930), Slotznyi vopros/Une question compliquée (1933), Tchoudo/Le miracle (1934), Pougatchev (1937), Razgrom Yudenica/La défaite de Youdenitch (1941), Obmanutié nadetchdy/Espoir déçu (1955)
P. Petrov-Bytov op IFFR
Kain i Artem
86'
USSR
IFFR 1998