
1941
Prairie Station
About the labor exploits of gold miners, the old partisan Fedor Potanin and his son, the leader Stepan.
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Filmmaker
Born
1881-07-24 · 90 yrs
Died
1971-10-30
From
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Known for
Directing
Russian film director, screenwriter, and actress. Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya (24.07.1881, Moscow – 30.10.1971, ibid.) was a Russian and Soviet stage and film actress, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue; she was one of the first female film directors in the world, and the first female film director in Russia. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1935). Between 1901 and 1906, Preobrazhenskaya attended the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, after which she worked in provincial theatres. In 1913, she made her film debut in The Keys to Happiness, as Mania Yeltsova. One of her first works as a director was The Peasant Girl (1916); Preobrazhenskaya worked on this film alongside her husband, the director Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin.…