Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vsevolod Pudovkin was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, actor, and influential theorist of cinematic montage. His silent-film masterpieces *Mother* (1926), *The End of St. Petersburg* (1927), and *Storm over Asia* (1928) helped define Soviet revolutionary cinema. He also wrote widely studied works on directing, screenwriting, and film acting, and later directed historical films including *Suvorov* and *Admiral Nakhimov*.