Background
GARDIN, Vladimir was born on January 18, 1877 in Tver’ (now Kalinin).
Actor Film director and scriptwriter
GARDIN, Vladimir was born on January 18, 1877 in Tver’ (now Kalinin).
1898 began stage work. 1904-1906 at Saint St. Petersburg Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater. Then actor in Saint St. Petersburg, Moscow, et cetera
1907 founded in Terioki ’’Free Theater," where he staged plays forbidden by the censorship. Toured in Paris, London and other West European cities. 1908 founded Russian theater in Paris.
1912 with Moscow Korsh Theater. From 1913 film work as director and scriptwriter and from 1915 as actor. Helped create the so-called Russian Golden Film Series on themes from Russian classic literature
After 1917 October Revol member, Photography and Cinematography Committee, People's Commissariat of Education. 1919-1921 co-founder and head, First State Cinematography School (later State Institute of Cinematography). 1922-1924 film director, All-Ukraine Photography and Cinematography Board.
1929, after his film Poet i tsar' (Poet and Tsar) had been sharply criticized, stopped work as film director Roles: in theater: the President in “Kabale und Licbc". F. P. Karamazov in Brat’ya Karamazovy (The Brothers Karamazov).
Krogstad in Ibsen’s "Dolls’ House”. Shalimov in Gorky's Dachniki (Summer Residents). Protasov in L. Tolstoy's Zliivoy trap (The Living Corpse), et cetera
In films: Babchenko in Vstrechnyy) (Chance Encounter) (1932). Title role in SaltykovShchcdrin’s ludushka Golovlyov (1934). Count Tolstoy in Pyotr I (Peter I) (1939).
The Boyar Kivrin in Stepan Razin (1939). Potanin in Paren’ iz taygi (A Lad from the Taiga) (1941). Bakh in Anton Ivanovich serditsya (Anton Ivanovich Is Angry) (1941).
Diion in Sekretnaya missiya (Secret Mission) (1950), et cetera