The Kuleshov Effect

The Kuleshov Effect

55 mins | Documentary | May 13, 1969

An excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length, both about his filmmaking and his far lengthier career as a teacher (including some fascinating remarks about Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo). Also interviewed is the father of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky, who worked with Kuleshov as a screenwriter on a Jack London adaptation, By the Law, in 1926.

The Kuleshov Effect

55 mins | Documentary | May 13, 1969

The Kuleshov Effect
An excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length, both about his filmmaking and his far lengthier career as a teacher (including some fascinating remarks about Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo). Also interviewed is the father of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky, who worked with Kuleshov as a screenwriter on a Jack London adaptation, By the Law, in 1926.
Producers Tsentrnauchfilm
Original title Эффект Кулешова
Directors Semyon Raytburt
Writers A. Konoplyova

Cast

Lev Kuleshov

as Himself

Viktor Shklovskiy

as Himself