Pyotr Ivanovich Chardynin (russian: Пётр Иванович Чардынин) ( – 14 August 1934) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. One of the pioneers of the film industry in the

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, Chardynin directed over a hundred

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s during his career.

Biography

Chardynin was born Pyotr Ivanovich Krasavtsev on 10 February 1873 in

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(now

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, Russia). In 1890, he was admitted to the Drama School of Moscow Philharmonic Society, where he studied under

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from 1891. After graduating, he adopted stage name of Chardynin and started both acting and directing career in provincial Russian theatres in

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and

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. He first began experimenting with short films in 1907. In 1908, Chardynin joined the troupe at Vvedensky Narodny Dom in Moscow and, as a part of it, started his film acting career in ''A 16th Century Russian Wedding'' and '' Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov''. In 1909, Chardynin debuted as a director with ''The Power of Darkness'' and soon become the principal director for

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's film company. In 1916, however, facing the serious competition from

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, he left the Khanzhonkov and, together with

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and several other leading actors, joined Dmitriy Kharitonov's studio in Odessa. There, Chardynin made several successful films including ''

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''. Being one of the most productive Russian filmmakers, he directed about 120 or 200 films by 1918, mainly specializing on literary adaptations. From 1920 to 1923, Chardynin lived and worked in Italy, France, Germany and Latvia. In 1923, he returned to the

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to work at

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, where he directed several costume dramas and epics about the history of Ukraine. During the early 1930s, Chardynin was banned from directing by Soviet authorities and died in 1934 from

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Personal life

One of Chardynin’s several marriages was to director

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(Chardynina), who worked as an assistant director on eleven of his films in the 1920s.

Filmography

* ''

The Power of Darkness ''The Power of Darkness'' (russian: Власть тьмы, Vlast′ t′my) is a five- act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play's production was forbidden in Russia until 1902, mainly through the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev. I ...

'' (short), 1909 * ''

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'' (short), 1909 * ''Charodeyka'' (''The Enchantress'') (short), 1909 * '' Boyarin Orsha'' (short), 1910 * ''

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'' (short), 1910 * '' The Queen of Spades'' (short), 1910 * ''

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'' (short), 1910 * ''Na boykom meste'', 1911 * ''

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'', 1911 * ''Rabochaya slobodka'' (short), 1912 * ''

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'' (short), 1913 * ''

Uncle's Apartment Uncle's Apartment, (russian: Дядюшкина квартира) is a 1913 Russian short film directed by Pyotr Chardynin and Yevgeni Bauer. Plot The film will tell about a man named Koko, who decides to rent out his uncle's apartment rooms, a ...

'' (co-director), 1913 * ''1613'' (co-director), 1913 * ''Obryv'', 1913 * ''

The Little House in Kolomna ''The Little House in Kolomna'', (russian: Домик в Коломне) is a 1913 Russian short film directed by Pyotr Chardynin. Plot The film is based on the 1830 poem ''The Little House in Kolomna'' by Alexander Pushkin. Starring * Prask ...

'' (short), 1913 * ''V rukakh besposhchadnogo roka'' (short), 1914 * ''Ty pomnish li?, 1914 * ''Revnost'' (short), 1914 * ''Zhenshchina zavtrashevo dnya'', 1914 * ''Sorvanets'', 1914 * ''

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'', 1914 * ''Vlast tmy'' (short), 1915 * ''Ubogaya i naryadnaya'', 1915 * ''Komediya smerti'' (short), 1915 * ''Katyusha Maslova'', 1915 * ''Hromonozhka'', 1915 * ''Peterburgskiye trushchobi'' (co-director), 1915 * ''

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'', 1915 * ''Potop'', 1915 * ''Teni grekha'', 1915 * ''Venetziansky chulok'', 1915 * ''Lyubov statskogo sovetnika'', 1915 * ''Drakonovskiy kontrakt'', 1915 * '' Mirages'' (short), 1915 * '' By the Fireplace'', 1917 * ''

'', 1918 * ''Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh'', 1920 * ''Dubrowsky, der Räuber Ataman'' (as Peter Tschardin), 1921 * ''Ukraziya'', 1925 * ''Taras Shevchenko'', 1926

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chardynin, Pyotr 1873 births 1934 deaths Russian film directors Male screenwriters Russian male writers Russian male actors Russian male silent film actors Silent film directors Deaths from liver cancer 20th-century Russian screenwriters 20th-century Russian male writers

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