Vsevolod Pudovkin

Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (1893–1953)

0.97body-of-work score · ranked #911 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
February 28, 1893 · Penza
Died
June 30, 1953 · Jūrmala
Nationality
Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union
Work
actor, film director, screenwriter, writer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Vsevolod Pudovkin
Film screenshot · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Storm over AsiaПотомок Чингисхана

    1928 · Soviet Union · silent, drama, war

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1930 #2

    0.631 citation
  2. 2
    Chess FeverШахматная горячка

    1925 · Soviet Union · silent, comedy

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation
  3. 3
    MotherМать

    1926 · Soviet Union · silent, drama

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation
  4. 4
    The DeserterДезертир

    1933 · Soviet Union · drama

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 18 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1925Chess Fever
  • 1926Mechanics of the Brain
  • 1926Mother
  • 1927The End of St. Petersburg
  • 1928Storm over Asia
  • 1930A Simple Case
  • 1930
  • 1933The Deserter
  • 1938Victory
  • 1939Minin and Pozharsky
  • 1941Combat Film Collection No. 6
  • 1941Suvorov
  • 1942The Murderers are Coming
  • 1943In the Name of the Fatherland
  • 1947Admiral Nachimow
  • 1949Three Encounters
  • 1950Zhukovsky
  • 1953The Return of Vasili Bortnikov