Film Directors - Legends of World Cinema Episodes
List of all episodes about film directors in the Legends of World Cinema (2004).
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- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikIngmar BergmanSwedish film director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman is master made existential and soul-searching films that constitute one of the richest bodies of work in the history of cinema.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikAkira KurosawaJapanese film director and screenwriter Akira Kurosawa is regarded as one of the most important and influential film directors in the history of cinema.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikFrançois TruffautFrench film director and screenwriter François Truffaut is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikMichelangelo AntonioniMonica VittiItalian film director Michelangelo Antonioni is known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents" - L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), and L'Eclisse (1962).
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikSergei EisensteinRussian film director and film theorist Sergei Eisenstein is regarded as one of the most important pioneers of early cinema. He epitomized the uneasy, if often dynamic, synthesis of art and politics.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikCharles ChaplinEnglish comic actor, film director and screenwriter Charlie Chaplin is one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikD.W. GriffithAmerican film director D. W. Griffith is one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered the art of the narrative movie.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikGeorges MélièsFrench illusionist and film director Georges Méliès was known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikWilliam WylerAmerican-German-Swiss film director William Wyler was regarded as second only to John Ford as a "master craftsman of cinema."
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikSergey BondarchukRussian film director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk is known for Oscar-Winning movie War and Peace (1965). He was one of the leading figures of Russian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikGeorge CukorAmerican film director George Cukor mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major movies.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikGrigoriy KozintsevRussian film director Grigory Kozintsev is one of the great innovators of cinema. He is known for his adaptations of classic plays, include Don Kikhot (1957), Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1970).
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikYakov ProtazanovRussian film director Yakov Protazanov was one of the founding pioneers of Russian cinema.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikSergey GerasimovRussian film director and screenwriter Sergei Gerasimov is known for his acclaimed the epic movie Quiet Flows the Don (1957), based on the eponymous book by Mikhail Sholokhov. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikHoward HughesAmerican business magnate and film director Howard Hughes gained fame in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-budget movie about aircraft themes.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikFranco ZeffirelliItalian film director Franco Zeffirelli renowned for his extravagantly romantic opera productions, popular film versions of Shakespeare and supercharged social life.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikMikhail RommRussian film director Mikhail Romm is one of the most important directors of Russia. The diversity in his filmmaking spanned from an epic movie about Vladimir Lenin to a portrait of a poor village woman.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikGeorgiy DaneliyaGeorgian-Russian film director and screenwriter Georgy Daneliya was one of the most popular soviet film directors, whose gently satirical films managed to poke fun at just about everyone without offending anyone.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikLev KuleshovRussian film director and film theorist Lev Kuleshov is one of the founders of the world's first film school. He used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect".
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikVsevolod PudovkinRussian film director and film theorist Vsevolod Pudovkin working during the first half of the 20th century.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikLeonid GaidaiRussian film director Leonid Gaidai is as "the king of Soviet comedy". His movies broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikGeorg JacobyGerman film director and screenwriter Georg Jacoby was known for his works between 1920s - 1940s.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikEmil LoteanuRussian film director Emil Loteanu is known for movies - The Shooting Party (1978), Queen of the Gypsies (1976), Lautarii (1972), Anna Pavlova (1983).
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikGrigoriy AleksandrovRussian film director Grigory Alexandrov was known for a soviet musical comedies in 1930s.
- DirectorAndrey IstratovStarsKonstantin KarasikMarlen KhutsievGeorgian-Russian film director Marlen Khutsiev revitalized Soviet cinema with his New Wave sensibility during the Khrushchev Thaw of the mid 1950s and early 1960s.