Moskvin A. N. (1901-1961), cameraman

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MOSKVIN Andrey Nikolaevich (1901, Tsarskoe Selo - 1961, Leningrad), cameraman, Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1935). Studied at the Institute of Railway Engineering. Worked with directors G. M. Kozintsev and L. Z. Trauberg to shoot 22 films. Revealed the peculiarity of 1920s Leningrad in Devil’s Wheel (1926), Little Brother (1927), and Alone (1931), and captured Gogol’s St. Petersburg in The Overcoat (1926). His camerawork in the Maxim Trilogy shot in 1935-39 contributed to depicting a worker’s life in the outskirts of St. Petersburg. He collaborated with E. K. Tisse in interior shooting for Ivan the Terrible directed by S. M. Eisenstein in 1944-45 and 1958. He is especially recognized for his colour work in Kozintsev’s Don Quixote (1957). He recreated the classic St. Petersburg for the films Pirogov (1947) and Belinsky (1953), both directed by Kozintsev, and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1946 and 1948. He was buried at Kazanskoe Cemetery, Pushkin.

Reference: Кинооператор Андрей Москвин. Л., 1971; Бутовский Я. Л. Андрей Москвин, кинооператор. СПб., 2000.

V. А. Kuznetsova. Eisenstein Sergey Mikhailovich
Kozintsev Grigory Mikhailovich
Moskvin Andrey Nikolaevich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Tisse Eduard Kazimirovich
Trauberg Leonid Zakharovich
Кинооператор Андрей Москвин. Л., 1971
Бутовский Я. Л. Андрей Москвин, кинооператор. СПб., 2000 Railway University
Kazanskoe Cemetery