Lev Kuleshov

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Soviet filmmaker film director film theorist human silent film director

Lev Kuleshov was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and film theorist best known for the "Kuleshov effect," which demonstrated how editing shapes audience perception and became foundational to montage theory.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Soviet filmmaker → film director → film theorist → human → silent film director →
birthDate	1899-01-13 →
birthPlace	Russian Empire → Tambov Governorate →
citizenship	Russian Empire → Soviet Union →
countryOfCitizenshipDuringCareer	Soviet Union →
deathDate	1970-03-29 →
deathPlace	Moscow → Soviet Union →
developedConcept	Kuleshov effect → creative geography →
educatedAt	Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture →
employer	All-Union State Institute of Cinematography → VGIK →
era	Soviet silent cinema →
familyName	Kuleshov →
fieldOfWork	cinema → film theory → montage theory →
fullName	Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov →
givenName	Lev →
influenced	Alfred Hitchcock → Dziga Vertov → Sergei Eisenstein → Vsevolod Pudovkin → global film editing practices →
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian →
movement	Soviet montage →
notableFor	Kuleshov effect → Soviet montage theory → founding one of the first film schools →
notableWork	By the Law → The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks → The Great Consoler →
occupation	film director → film editor → film theorist → teacher →
positionHeld	head of directing department at VGIK → professor at VGIK →
spouse	Aleksandra Khokhlova →
wrote	Kino: A New Art → The Principles of Montage →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Soviet montage school → Soviet montage school ("Grigori Aleksandrov") →	notableFigure
Lev Kuleshov ("Kuleshov") →	familyName
Lev Kuleshov ("Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov") →	fullName
Sergei Eisenstein →	influencedBy
Soviet montage school →	theorizedBy