Vladimir Pavlovich Fogel (Russian: Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€
ÐŸÐ°Ì Ð²Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¤Ð¾Ì Ð³ÐµÐ»ÑŒ; 1902 â€" 9 June 1929) was a Russian
silent film actor.Vladimir Fogel was born in Moscow. His family name
comes from his German father, an immigrant who worked as an accountant
despite hardly speaking any Russian. Vladimir's education in the Saint
Petersburg State Institute of Technology was terminated by the October
Revolution. After spending some years traveling around Russia, he
returned to Moscow and enrolled to the newly opened National Film
School to study acting.His teacher was Lev Kuleshov who later called
Fogel "ingenious cinema actor â€" the best in our generation."
Kuleshov was the one who introduced Fogel to the world of cinema with
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
(1924) where he played a small part and also dubbed Boris Barnet
during his most dangerous trick: climbing on the cable that tears and
sends him straight into the window. He had bigger roles in Kuleshov's
other films, such as Luch Smerti and Po Zakonu. Among Fogel's fellow
students were acclaimed Soviet actors and directors: Vsevolod
Pudovkin, Boris Barnet, Porfiri Podobed, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Valéry
Inkijinoff, Sergei Komarov. All of them formed what became known as
Kuleshov's Collective. Besides acting and directing, they also studied
acrobatics, boxing, driving, fencing, photography and other
disciplines. According to Kuleshov, Fogel mastered all of them and was
capable of basically everything.Since 1924 Vladimir had worked in
cinema. His first big role happened in 1925 in the popular comedy
short Chess Fever co-directed by Pudovkin. Fogel quickly turned into
one of the leading Soviet comedy actors of the silent era, along with
Igor Ilyinsky who was his partner in Miss Mend and The Doll With
Millions. Despite his comedy career, Kuleshov saw him as a serious
drama actor and thus gave him a tragic role of a murderer in Jack
London's adaptation Po Zakonu which is often praised as Fogel's best
role. Another acclaimed drama film with Fogel in the lead was Bed and
Sofa loosely based on the lives of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilya Brik and
her husband.
ÐŸÐ°Ì Ð²Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¤Ð¾Ì Ð³ÐµÐ»ÑŒ; 1902 â€" 9 June 1929) was a Russian
silent film actor.Vladimir Fogel was born in Moscow. His family name
comes from his German father, an immigrant who worked as an accountant
despite hardly speaking any Russian. Vladimir's education in the Saint
Petersburg State Institute of Technology was terminated by the October
Revolution. After spending some years traveling around Russia, he
returned to Moscow and enrolled to the newly opened National Film
School to study acting.His teacher was Lev Kuleshov who later called
Fogel "ingenious cinema actor â€" the best in our generation."
Kuleshov was the one who introduced Fogel to the world of cinema with
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
(1924) where he played a small part and also dubbed Boris Barnet
during his most dangerous trick: climbing on the cable that tears and
sends him straight into the window. He had bigger roles in Kuleshov's
other films, such as Luch Smerti and Po Zakonu. Among Fogel's fellow
students were acclaimed Soviet actors and directors: Vsevolod
Pudovkin, Boris Barnet, Porfiri Podobed, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Valéry
Inkijinoff, Sergei Komarov. All of them formed what became known as
Kuleshov's Collective. Besides acting and directing, they also studied
acrobatics, boxing, driving, fencing, photography and other
disciplines. According to Kuleshov, Fogel mastered all of them and was
capable of basically everything.Since 1924 Vladimir had worked in
cinema. His first big role happened in 1925 in the popular comedy
short Chess Fever co-directed by Pudovkin. Fogel quickly turned into
one of the leading Soviet comedy actors of the silent era, along with
Igor Ilyinsky who was his partner in Miss Mend and The Doll With
Millions. Despite his comedy career, Kuleshov saw him as a serious
drama actor and thus gave him a tragic role of a murderer in Jack
London's adaptation Po Zakonu which is often praised as Fogel's best
role. Another acclaimed drama film with Fogel in the lead was Bed and
Sofa loosely based on the lives of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilya Brik and
her husband.
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