Anatoli Golovnya
Anatoly Dmitrievich Golownja (Russian Анатолий Дмитриевич Головня; born February 2, 1900 in Simferopol, † June 25, 1982 in Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer.
Life
Golwownja was a permanent employee of the director Vsevolod Pudovkin and was next to Edward and Andrei Moskvin Tisse as the greatest cinematographer of the early Soviet cinema film. He studied at the beginning of the 20s at the state film school WGIK in Moscow, specializing in camera technology. 1925 brought WGIK Graduate Pudovkin Golownja to himself.
From the beginning of both careers Golownja and Pudovkin formed a solid team. Golownja to give Pudovkin's productions through his paintings a new, revolutionary drama understood. His camera angles showed their strongest creative force, especially in the mother, The End of St. Petersburg and Storm over Asia. By contrast, his sound film images fit into the Stalin era more and more to meet demand at this time design principles of socialist monumentality and spectacle splendor.
Golownja, the ( The Living Corpse Fyodor Ozeps ) and 1931 ( Vsevolod Pudovkin Desertir ) had also come to Germany twice to filming in 1928, worked alongside his practical activities in film theory. So he taught from 1934 at the WGIK, starting in 1939 as part of a professorship. Since the end of World War II Golownja also published several books on art camera and camera equipment.