Levitsky Aleksandr Andreevich

Artist-photographer, cinematographer of silent Russian cinema. One of the founders of the Russian and Soviet school of cinematography. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1949). He began his cinematographic work in 1910 as an assistant to the French cameraman J. Meyer. Later he became a leading master of Russian pre-revolutionary cinematography. He worked in the Russian branch of the Pathé Brothers company, then in the trading house of P. Timan and F. Reinhardt, in 1915 — in the Skobelev Committee. Since 1917 he worked in the All-Russian Photo and Cinema Department of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. Since 1924 — teacher of the State College of Cinematography, since 1939 — professor. He made such films as "A Nest of Gentry" (1914), "First Love" (1915), and filmed documentaries of L. Tolstoy - "The Departure of the Great Elder" (1912), V. Lenin. From 1924 he taught. In 1964 he published the book "Stories about Cinematography". He participated in the filming of the famous film "Battleship Potemkin".