Arcady Boytler
Arcady Boytler ( born August 31, 1893 in Moscow, † November 24, 1965 in Mexico City; actually Arkadi Arkadyevitch Boitler Rososky, Russian Аркадий Аркадьевич Бойтлер ) was a Russian film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter who in the Soviet Union, Germany, Chile and Mexico worked. He began with the turning of silent films and then moved to talkies. He was also a director of the Mexican film and worked during its Golden Age.
Life
Arcady Boytler was the son of a lawyer. He was interested in early for acting and worked together with the recognized theater directors Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold. 1916 turned Boytler his first films. In the three short films, he has not only directed, but was also the actor. As a result of the February Revolution of 1917 he emigrated to the Ukraine to Kiev. There he met his wife Lina Orguina know who changed her name to Lina Boytler later. Between 1920 and 1922, Arcady Boytler held in Berlin. There he starred in two short films, in which he also directed: Boytler against Chaplin and Boytler kills the boredom.
After moving to South America in 1927 Arcady Boytler turned in Chile with Buscador de fortuna his first feature film in which he participated as an actor. He stayed for some time in the United States, where he worked with the production company founded in 1929, Empire Productions, which made films in Spanish only. Boytler worked for the company as artistic director and actor. In the second half of 1929, he turned in the Metropolitan Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey several short films.
In 1931 Arcady Boytler in Mexico. His first film was there Mano a mano from the year 1932. Sergei M. Eisenstein's film In Que viva Mexico! Boytler had an appearance in the Fiesta scene. 1934 turned Arcady Boytler La mujer del puerto, who was an important film on the way to the development of an original Mexican imagery. The quality of the film is considered to be outstanding. So thought about Lut Alba that La mujer del puerto could be called the first Mexican film to be excellent. Carlos Monsiváis saw in him even the first truly Mexican film with a special intensity. In addition to the originality of the Mexican critic and filmmaker Tomás Pérez Turrent made in it the influence of the Expressionist film from Germany, as well as the out of Feyder Jacques and Georges Lacombe.
On November 24, 1965 Arcady Boytler died in Mexico City on a cardiac arrest.