Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya was a Russian and Soviet actress and film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, one of the first female film directors.

Biography

Olga Preobrazhenskaya was born on 24 July 1881 in Moscow. In 1901–1904 she studied in the actor school of Moscow Art Theater and since 1905 worked in theaters in Poltava, Tbilisi, Riga, Odessa, Voronezh and Moscow. In 1913 she debuted as film actress in The Keys to Happiness, directed by Vladimir Gardin

Vladimir Gardin

Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema....

 and Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov was Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia....

 and went on to star in several very popular adaptations of Russian classics, such as War and Peace and On the Eve (both 1915). Olga Preobrazhenskaya was one of the founders of the actor school of the VGIK, where she taught in 1918–1925.

Filmography

actress

• The Keys to Happiness (Ключи счастья) (1913)
• Dionysus' Anger (Гнев Диониса) (1914)
• A Nest of Gentlefolk (Дворянское гнездо) (1914)
• Mask of Death (Маска смерти) (1914)
• War and Peace (Война и мир) (1915)
• The Garnet Bracelet (Гранатовый браслет) (1915)
• On the Eve (Накануне) (1915)
• Peterburg Slums (Петербургские трущобы) (1915)
• Plebeian (Плебей) (1915)
• Privalov's Millions (Приваловские миллионы) (1915)
• The Great Passion (Великая страсть) (1916)
• Deep Pool (Омут) (1916)
• Whose Guilt? (Чья вина?) (1916)
• The Iron Heel (Железная пята) (1919)
• The Landowner (Помещик) (1923)
• Locksmith and Chancellor (Слесарь и канцлер) (1924)

director

• Miss Peasant (Барышня - крестьянка) (1916); co-directed with Vladimir Gardin
  Vladimir Gardin
  Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who strove to raise the artistic level of Russian cinema....
  
  
• Victoria (Виктория) (1917)
• Tale of Priest Pankrat (Сказка о попе Панкрате) (1918)
• The Landowner (Помещик) (1923)
• Fedka's truth (Федькина правда) (1925)
• Kashtanka (Каштанка) (1926)
• Anne (Аня) (1927)
• The Women of Ryazan (Бабы рязанские) (1927)
• A Town Full of Light (Светлый город) (1928); co-directed with Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Konstantinovich Pravov was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Filmography:director* The Women of Ryazan ; co-directed with Olga Preobrazhenskaya...
  
  
• The Last Attraction (Последний аттракцион) (1929); co-directed with Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Konstantinovich Pravov was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Filmography:director* The Women of Ryazan ; co-directed with Olga Preobrazhenskaya...
  
  
• And Quiet Flows the Don (Тихий Дон) (1931); co-directed with Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Konstantinovich Pravov was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Filmography:director* The Women of Ryazan ; co-directed with Olga Preobrazhenskaya...
  
  
• Paths of Enemies (Вражьи тропы) (1935); co-directed with Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Konstantinovich Pravov was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Filmography:director* The Women of Ryazan ; co-directed with Olga Preobrazhenskaya...
  
  
• Stepan Razin (Степан Разин) (1939); co-directed with Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Konstantinovich Pravov was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Filmography:director* The Women of Ryazan ; co-directed with Olga Preobrazhenskaya...
  
  
• Lad from Taiga (Парень из тайги) (1941); co-directed with Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Pravov
  Ivan Konstantinovich Pravov was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter.-Filmography:director* The Women of Ryazan ; co-directed with Olga Preobrazhenskaya...
  
  

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