Vladimir Maksimov
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Vladimir Vasilyevich Maksimov
- Born:
- 1880-07-27, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Died:
- 1937-03-22, Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
On 27 July 1880, amid the snow-silvered avenues of Saint Petersburg, Vladimir Maksimov drew his first breath—little hinting that the city’s spotlights would one day return his gaze. He grew into a master of both sides of the camera: an actor who could still a room with a lifted brow and a director who stitched silent images into urgent stories. Between 1922 and 1923 he shaped three now-legendary pictures—the yearning fable A tam…, the cliff-hanger Katsi katsistvis mgelia, and the spark-charged thriller Yest kontakt!, each one a testament to his gift for marrying tension to poetry. Fourteen years after that creative burst, on 22 March 1937, the curtain fell for the last time; Maksimov died in Moscow, leaving behind a legacy that still flickers through Russian cinema like an unbroken reel of light.
