Pudovkin

American  

[poo-dawf-kin, -dof-, poo-dawf-kyin] / puˈdɔf kɪn, -ˈdɒf-, puˈdɔf kyɪn /

noun

1. Vsevolod Ilarionovich 1893–1953, Russian motion-picture director.

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Pudovkin British  

/ puˈdɔfkjɪn /

noun

1. Vsevolod (ˈfsjevələt). 1893–1953, Russian film director; noted for his silent films, such as Mother (1926) and Storm over Asia (1928)

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Example Sentences

Pudovkin — and by many less important filmmakers.

From New York Times

Those videos included whole films and/or clips from films both as canonized and as propagandistic as “Triumph of the Will”: Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” and “October,” Alexander Dovzhenko’s “Earth,” Dziga Vertov’s “Man With A Movie Camera,” and Vsevolod Pudovkin’s “Mother” and “Storm Over Asia.”

From Washington Times

“Histories of Soviet film are invariably dominated by the montage theorists — Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov — but I think I’d swap most of their work for any of the early films of Boris Barnet,” the critic Dave Kehr, now a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, wrote in The New York Times in 2004.

From New York Times

For Pudovkin, “Mother” is at Amazon.

From New York Times

He was influenced by the writings of Russian theorists like Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mr. Klein writes, and spent evenings at the American Contemporary Gallery in Hollywood.

From New York Times