Our Cinema (1940)

Vladimir Lenin as (archive footage) Died 1924 · Simbirsk Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet R...

Vasiliy Konstantinov as (archive footage) Died 1952 · Gagarino, Zadonskiy uezd, Voronezhskaya guberniya, Russian Empire Film equipment designer, director, operator. In the 1920s, the operator of the Moscow newsreel studio. In the early 1930s, he moved to film studios at the studio.

Semyon Ivanov as (archive footage) Died 1972 · Russian Empire Inventor of the Soviet system of stereoscopic glasses-free cinematography. He worked in cinematography since 1937 (NIKFI, «Soyuzdetfilm» film studio, in 1944-1947 - «Stereokino» film studio), since 19...

Lev Kuleshov as (archive footage) Died 1970 · Tambov, Russian Empire [now Russia] Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Lev...

Sergei Eisenstein as (archive footage) Died 1948 · Riga, Russian Empire Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage." He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1...

Mark Troyanovsky as (archive footage) Died 1967 · Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Russia)