Pyotr Chardynin

Petro Chardynin, whose real name was Krasavtsev or Krasavtchikov, was born in February 1873 into a peasant family. Trained at the school of music and dramatic art of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, he was a provincial actor, then one of the most active directors of the cinema of the Empire. He lived abroad from 1920 to 1922, working notably for Latvian cinema, and in 1923 joined the first film factory in Odessa, where he made thirteen films. He died in Odessa on 14 August 1934.

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• CinemaTaras ShevchenkoТарас ШевченкоPyotr Chardynin · 1926Cinema