Valentin Konstantinovich Turkin (russian: Валентин Константинович Туркин; 6 February 1887 – 10 January 1958) was a

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outl ...

, and

film theorist Film theory is a set of scholarly approaches within the academic discipline of film or cinema studies that began in the 1920s by questioning the formal essential attributes of motion pictures; and that now provides conceptual frameworks for unde ...

active in the Soviet Union.Youngblood p.90 Turkin was a founder of the

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...

Selected filmography

* ''

The Tailor from Torzhok ''The Tailor from Torzhok'' (russian: Закройщик из Торжка, Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka) is a 1925 cinema of the Soviet Union, Soviet silent comedy film directed by Yakov Protazanov and starring Igor Ilyinsky. The picture was commis ...

'' (1925) *'' The Stationmaster'' (1925) *''

The Girl with a Hatbox ''The Girl with a Hatbox'' or ''Moscow That Laughs and Weeps'' (russian: Девушка с коробкой, Devushka s korobkoy) is a 1927 Soviet silent romantic comedy film directed by Boris Barnet and starring Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhailo ...

'' (1927) *''

The Ghost That Never Returns ''The Ghost That Never Returns'' (russian: Привидение, которое не возвращается, Prividenie, kotoroe ne vozvrashchaetsya) is a 1930 Soviet made part-sound drama film. It was directed by Abram Room based on a novel by ...

'' (1930)

References

Bibliography

* Youngblood, Denise. ''Movies for the Masses: Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s''. Cambridge University Press, 1993.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turkin, Valentin 1887 births 1958 deaths Male screenwriters People from Novocherkassk Film theorists Soviet film critics Soviet screenwriters Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography