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Filmmaker · Azerbaijan

Vladimir Balluzek

Died in 1957

Vladimir Balluzek was born in Saint Petersburg in December 1881. A student at the Higher School of Fine Arts, he was expelled from the capital in 1905 for frequenting revolutionary circles, trained in Munich and then worked in theatre set workshops, in Paris among other places. Allowed to return to Russia in 1914, he became a designer for the stage and the screen, designed the sets of a Queen of Spades in 1916 and worked for many Russian and Ukrainian studios, up to Mosfilm. Having moved into directing in 1924, he made a few more films and died on 9 September 1957.

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