Valentin Konstantinovich Turkin (russian: Валентин Константинович Туркин; 6 February 1887 – 10 January 1958) was a screenwriter,

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active in the Soviet Union.Youngblood p.90 Turkin was a founder of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Selected filmography

* '' The Tailor from Torzhok'' (1925) *'' The Stationmaster'' (1925) *'' The Girl with a Hatbox'' (1927) *'' The Ghost That Never Returns'' (1930)

References

Bibliography

* Youngblood, Denise. ''Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s''. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turkin, Valentin 1887 births 1958 deaths Male screenwriters People from Novocherkassk Film theorists Soviet film critics Soviet screenwriters Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography