Petrov V.M. (1896-1966), film director

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PETROV Vladimir Mikhailovich (1896, St. Petersburg - 1966), film director, People’s Artist of the USSR (1951). Graduated from Petrograd University and studied at the Alexandrinsky Theatre School in 1916-17. He also completed director V. K. Viskovsky’s film courses in 1924. Involved in cinema from 1925, he directed children’s films at Lenfilm in 1920s, including Golden Honey shot in 1928 with co-director I. N. Beresnev, Lenin’s Address shot in 1929, and Fritz Bauer shot in 1930. It was in the 1930s, however, that he directed his most remarkable films, including Storm shot in 1934 and based on an A. N. Ostrovsky story, and Peter the First, shot in 1937-39, and also noted for N. K. Simonov brilliant acting. He lived in Moscow after the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. He later directed Guilty without Guilt, shot in 1945, based on an A. N. Ostrovsky story, and awarded a prize at the International Film Festival in Venice in 1946; and Battle of Stalingrad, shot in 1949 and awarded the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival in Mariansk-Lazna in 1950. He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1946, and 1950.

Reference: Бродянский Б. Л. Владимир Петров. М., 1939; Березанцева Т. Из прошлых лет: (Встреча с В. М. Петровым) // Жизнь в кино: Ветераны о себе и своих товарищах. М., 1986. Вып. 3. С. 35-57.

V. А. Kuznetsova. Beresnev Ivan Nikolaevich
Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolaevich
Petrov Vladimir Mikhailovich
Simonov Nikolay Konstantinovich
Viskovsky Vyacheslav K.
Бродянский Б. Л. Владимир Петров. М., 1939
Березанцева Т. Из прошлых лет: (Встреча с В. М. Петровым) // Жизнь в кино: Ветераны о себе и своих товарищах. М., 1986 State University, St. Petersburg
Alexandrinsky Theatre
Lenfilm, Film Studio