Sergei Kozlovsky(1885-1962)
- Production Designer
- Art Director
- Director
Kozlovsky, chief art director of the All-Union Children's Studio, has
long been a guiding force in raising technical standards. Designers
became established as leading creative members of film units in about
1935, and soon after that important technical improvements were made in
most of the studios. Kozlovsky's studio introduced the idea of
prefabricated basic sets and component parts, which soon came into
general use. In 1938, as a result of a thoroughgoing exchange of
experiences and ideas between studios, certain fundamental structures
and some of the equipment were standardized. This has increased the
designers' scope enormously, enabling them to carry out a variety of
projects which in the past would have been impracticable. Among the
films designed by Kozlovsky, who is a People's Artist, are "Mother",
"The End of St. Petersburg', "The Deserter", "Lermontov", and his
latest is "The 15-year-old Captain", after Jules Verne. (Catherine de
la Roche : "Scenic Design in the Soviet Cinema", The Penguin Film
Review # 3, London, August 1947, page 78)
