Pyotr Ivanovich Chardynin ( – 14 August 1934) was a Russian film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, and actor

Actor

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. Pyotr Chardynin, one of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, directed over a hundred silent film

Silent film

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s during his career.

Biography

Pyotr Chardynin was born Pyotr Ivanovich Krasavtsev on 10 February 1873 in Simbirsk, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (now Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk The city is the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin , for whom it is named.-History:Simbirsk was founded in 1648 by the boyar Bogdan Khitrovo. The fort of "Simbirsk" was strategically placed on a hill on the Western bank of the Volga River...

, Russia

Russia

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). In 1890 he was admitted to the Drama School of Moscow Philharmonic Society, were he studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Georgian-born Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre organizer, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavsky, in 1898.-Biography:Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was born...

 from 1891. After graduating he adopted stage name of Chardynin and started both acting and directing career in provincial Russian theatres in Belgorod

Belgorod

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, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Uralsk, and Vologda

Vologda

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.

In 1908 Chardynin joined the troupe at Vvedensky Narodny Dom in Moscow and, as a part of it, started his film acting career in A XVIth Century Russian Wedding and Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov

Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov (film)

Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov is a 1909 Russian silent film directed by Vasily Goncharov. The film is believed to be lost.-Plot:The film was loosely based on the eponymous poem by Mikhail Lermontov and consisted of four scenes: the feast at the court of Ivan the Terrible, the assault of...

. In 1909 Chardynin debuted as a director with The Power of Darkness and soon become the principal director for Aleksandr Khanzhonkov

Aleksandr Khanzhonkov

Aleksandr Aleksejevich Khanzhonkov was Russia's first cinema entrepreneur. He produced Defence of Sevastopol, Russia's first feature film, and Ladislas Starevich's ground-breaking puppet animations....

's film company. In 1916, however, facing the serious competition from Yevgeni Bauer

Yevgeni Bauer

Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer was a Russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter. His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century....

, Chardynin left the Khanzhonkov and, together with Vera Kholodnaya

Vera Kholodnaya

Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya was the first star of Russian silent cinema...

 and several other leading actors joined Dmitriy Kharitonov's studio in Odessa. There Chardynin made several successful films including Molchi, grust... molchi.

In 1920-1923 Chardynin lived and worked in Italy, France, Germany, and Latvia. In 1923 he returned to USSR to work at Odessa Film Studio

Odessa Film Studio

Odessa Film Studio is a Ukrainian film studio in Odessa. It is partially owned by a government and supervised by the Department of State property fund of Ukraine together with the Ministry of Culture. Together with Dovzhenko Film Studios they are the only state-owned and major film producers in...

, where he directed several costume dramas and epics about the history of Ukraine. During the early 1930s Chardynin was banned from directing by Soviet authorities and died in 1934 from the liver cancer.

Filmography

• Ukraziya 1925
• Dubrowsky, der Räuber Ataman (as Peter Tschardin)1921
• Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh 1920
• Molchi, grust... molchi
  Molchi, grust... molchi
  Molchi, grust... molchi is Russian silent drama film directed by famous director Pyotr Chardynin and starring several big Russian silent film stars as Vera Kholodnaya, Ossip Runitsch, Vitold Polonsky and Vladimir Maksimov.This film consisted of two parts,but survived just a 44 minutes long episode...
  
  1918
• U kamina 1917
• Mirazhi (short) 1916
• Drakonovskiy kontrakt 1915
• Lyubov statskogo sovetnika 1915
• Venetziansky chulok 1915
• Teni grekha 1915
• Potop
  Potop
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  1915
• Natasha Rostova
  Natasha Rostova
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  1915
• Peterburgskiye trushchobi (co-director) 1915
• Hromonozhka 1915
• Katyusha Maslova 1915
• Komediya smerti (short) 1915
• Ubogaya i naryadnaya 1915
• Vlast tmy (short)1915
• Krizantemy 1914
• Sorvanets 1914
• Zhenshchina zavtrashevo dnya 1914
• Revnost (short) 1914
• Ty pomnish' li? 1914
• V rukakh besposhchadnogo roka (short)1914
• Domik v Kolomne (short) 1913
• Obryv 1913
• 1613 (co-director) 1913
• Dyadushkina kvartira (co-director) 1913
• Voyna i mir (short) 1913
• Rabochaya slobodka (short) 1912
• Kreitzerova sonata 1911
• Na boykom meste 1911
• Pikovaya dama (short) 1910
• Idiot
  Idiot
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  (short) 1910
• Boyarin Orsha (short)1910
• Charodeyka (short) 1909
• Myortvye dushi (short) 1909

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