Dimitri Buchowetzki | |
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| Born | Dmitry Savelyevych Bukhovecky 1885 |
| Died | 1932 (aged 46–47) |
| Occupations | Film director Film actor screenwriter |
| Years active | 1918 -1931 |
Dimitri Buchowetzki (1885–1932),[1] bornDmitry Savelyevych Bukhovecky, was a Russianfilm director,screenwriter, andactor in Germany, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom, and France.[2][3]
Initially Buchowetzki studied law. Later he starred in a number of silent films, mostly playing antagonistic characters, includingYakov Protazanov’s melodramasGiant of the Spirit (1918) andMaidservant Jenny (1918). He played the hussar officer Minski in Aleksandr Ivanovski’s Pushkin adaptationThe Stationmaster (1918) and appeared in the title role of Aleksandr Razumnyi’s pro-Bolshevik filmComrade Abram (1919).In 1919, Buchowetzki immigrated to Germany, via Poland, where he directed his most artistic works: the expressionistic Fedor Dostoevsky adaptationThe Brothers Karamazov (1921), the historical dramaDanton (1921, based on Georg Büchner’s play), andOthello (1922), all starringEmil Jannings. Bukhovetski also made high-budget period pictures such asPeter the Great (1922).Pola Negri, whom Buchowetzki had directed in the German-madeSappho (1924), invited him to Hollywood, where he directed her in a series of erotic melodramas, includingMen (1924),Lily of the Dust (1926), andThe Crown of Lies (1926).
Buchowetzki began work atMGM onLove (1927) withGreta Garbo andRicardo Cortez. However, producerIrving Thalberg was unhappy with the early filming, and replaced Buchowetzki withEdmund Goulding, cinematographerMerritt B. Gerstad withWilliam H. Daniels, and Cortez withJohn Gilbert.[4]
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