Anna Nikolaevna Zemtsova (Russian: ''Анна Николаевна Земцова'' (1893–1965), also known as Anna Li (''Анна Ли),'' Anna Pudovkina or Anna Zemcova, was a Soviet silent film actress and film theorist. She was married to

Vsevolod Pudovkin Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin ( rus, Всеволод Илларионович Пудовкин, p=ˈfsʲevələt ɪl(ː)ərʲɪˈonəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈdofkʲɪn; 28 February 1893 – 30 June 1953) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and acto ...

Career

Anna Zemtsova-Selivanova started her career as an actress in the film of Khanzhonkov Studio ''Boulevard Slush'' (1918), directed by Boris Chaikovskii. She used the pseudonym ''Anna Li''. She published three articles in the film newspaper ''Kino'', focused on film theory that signed as ''Anna Li''. Her article ''The Screen and Rhythm'' apparently had a powerful effect on

Lev Kuleshov Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and Film theory, film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow Film School. He was g ...

. From 1922 to 1924, Zemtsova supported Vsevolod Pudovkin, which family was succumbing to

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

. Pudovkin assured that she encouraged him for pursuing a career as a filmmaker. She designed a garment called "The Chameleon" that could transform into twenty outfits, included a coat and a dress. However, Zemtsova stopped her designing activities in 1924. She appeared in the silent short film ''Chess Fever'' (1925) as the heroine, the wife of the hero who is chess addicted. The movie was directed by her husband Vsevolod Pudovkin. She played in the later films of Pudovkin ''Mother'' (1926) and ''The End of Saint Petersburg'' (1927). She also played in the German film ''Klippen der Ehe'' (Dyk Rudensky, 1930), produced by Gestus-Film GmbH. She married Pudovkin from 1923 until the death of the director in 1953.

Filmography

Chess Fever ''Chess Fever'' () is a 1925 Soviet silent comedy film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and . ''Chess Fever'' is a comedy about the Moscow 1925 chess tournament, made by Pudovkin during the pause in the filming of '' Mechanics of the Brain''. The f ...

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The End of St. Petersburg ''The End of St. Petersburg'' () is a 1927 silent drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, ''The End of St Petersburg'' was to be one of P ...

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Mother A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ges ...

(1926)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zemtsova, Anna 1893 births 1966 deaths Soviet silent film actresses