Timoshenko S.А. (1899-1958), film director

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TIMOSHENKO Semen Alexeevich (1899, St. Petersburg - 1958, Leningrad), film director, script writer, and cinema scholar. Working as an actor, director, and author at Petrograd's Free Comedy Theatre and Balaganchik Cabaret from 1920, he was among the most favourite comperes of the audience. He completed directing courses at the theatre department of the People's Commissariat of Education in Petrograd in 1920. He worked as a director at Lenfilm Studio from 1925. His films of the 1920s-30s were devoted to the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War including Napoleon Gas in 1925, Turbine No. 3 in 1927, and Two Armoured Cars in 1928. He turned to the comedy genre in the mid-1930s. Among his comedies were Three Comrades of 1935, Goalkeeper of 1936, Sky Slow Mover of 1946, and Reserve of 1954. St. Petersburg appeared in Timoshenko's documentary, Gardens and Parks of Leningrad, in 1950. He scripted and co-scripted most of his films. He wrote such books as Cinema Art and Film Editing published in Leningrad in 1926 and What Should a Director Know? published in Moscow and Leningrad in 1929. Buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

References: Чирков Б. П. Про нас, про актеров. 2-е изд., доп. М., 1970; Гуревич С. Сценарное кредо режиссера // Из истории "Ленфильма": Ст., воспоминания, док. Л., 1973. Вып. 3. С. 100-111.

I. V. Sepman. Timoshenko Semen Alexeevich
Чирков Б. П. Про нас, про актеров. 2-е изд., доп. М., 1970
Гуревич С. Сценарное кредо режиссера // Из истории "Ленфильма": Ст., воспоминания, док., 1920-е гг. Л., 1973 Show-Booth, Cabaret Theatre
Lenfilm, Film Studio
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery