Arcady Sergeevich Boytler Rososky (August 31, 1895 – November 24, 1965) was a

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, and director most renowned for his

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s during the golden age of Mexican cinema. Boytler was born in Moscow, Russia. During the 1920s, he started filming silent comedies. A collaborator of Sergei Eisenstein, he was called "the Russian Rooster" when he came to Mexico to film '' La mujer del puerto'' (1933). In 1937 he filmed '' ¡Así es mi tierra!'', which followed the model of Fernando de Fuentes's classic '' Allá en el Rancho Grande''. However, the film subverted the

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ary genre by making the general into the villain. He died in the Mexican Federal District of

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Filmography

Cinema of Mexico

* ''

Como yo te quería ''Como yo te quería'' ("As I Loved You") is a 1944 Mexican film. It stars Sara García Sara García Hidalgo (8 September 1895 – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican actress who made her biggest mark during the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema". ...

'' (1944) producer * ''Amor prohibido'' (1944) director, producer and screenwriter * ''Una luz en mi camino'' (1938) (special appearance) * ''El capitán aventurero'' (''Don Gil de Alcalá'') (1938) director and screenwriter * ''

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'' (1937) director and screenwriter * '' ¡Así es mi tierra!'' (1937) director and screenwriter * ''Celos'' (1935) director, screenwriter, and editor * ''El tesoro de Pancho Villa'' (1935) director, screenwriter, and editor * ''Revista musical'' (1934) director (

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) * '' La mujer del puerto'' (1933) director and supervising editor * ''Joyas de México'' (''Gems of Mexico'') (1933) director (series of three short films) * ''Mano a mano'' (1932) director and screenwriter * ''Un espectador impertinente'' (1932) director, actor and screenwriter (short subject) * ''

¡Que viva México! ''¡Que viva México!'' (, ; russian: Да здравствует Мексика!, Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!) is a film project begun in 1930 by the Russian avant-garde director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948) under contract to socialist author Upt ...

'' (1930–32) extra (during the party scene)

Cinema of Chile

* ''El buscador de fortuna'' (''No hay que desanimarse'') (1927) director and actor

Cinema of Germany

* ''Boytler Tötet Langeweile'' (''Boytler contra el aburrimiento''/''Pasatiempos de Boytler''/''Boytler against boredom'') (ca. 1922) actor and director * ''Boytler gegen Chaplin'' (''Boytler contra Chaplin''/''Boytler against

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'') (ca. 1920) actor and director (short subject)

Cinema of Russia

* ''Arkadij Controller Spalnych Vagonov'' (ca. 1915) actor and director * ''Arkadij Zhenitsa'' (ca. 1915) actor and director * ''Arkadij Sportsman'' (ca. 1915) actor and director

References

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Arcady Boytler
at the ITESM Mexican cinema site {{DEFAULTSORT:Boytler, Arcady Russian film directors Soviet emigrants to Mexico Russian Jews Mexican film directors Mexican film producers Mexican Jews Mass media people from Moscow 1895 births 1965 deaths 20th-century Mexican screenwriters 20th-century Mexican male writers