Slatan Dudow
Directing
January 30, 1903
Died July 12, 1963 (60 years old)
Zaribrod, Bulgaria (today Dimitrovgrad, Serbia)
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Directed
Biography
Slatan Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director, who worked in Weimar Germany and later East Germany. Influenced by revolutionary ideas, Dudow moved to Berlin in 1922. He gave up his plan to study architecture and studied theater from 1925 to 1926. He worked with Leopold Jessner and Juergen Fehling and was a chorus member under Erwin Piscator. But it was a trip to Moscow, where he met Majakowski and Eisenstein, that proved to be the most influential for his career. After his return from Moscow...
