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Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970)

Director | Art Director | Editor

Lev Kuleshov was a Russian director who used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect." Although editing innovations, such as crosscutting were used by directors in Hollywood before him, Kuleshov was the first to use it in the Soviet Russia. Openly pro-American and quietly anti-Soviet, he was driving a Ford sports car amidst Soviet poverty and Stalin's purges... See full bio »