Yevgeni Bauer
Directing
January 1, 1865
Died at age 52
June 22, 1917
Date of Death
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Biography
Yevgeni Franzevich Bauer (1865 - 1917) was a Russian film director of silent films, a theatre artist and a screenwriter. His work had a great influence on the aesthetics of Russian cinematography at the beginning of the 20th century.
Bauer made more than seventy films between 1913 and 1917 of which 26 survived. He already used the relatively long sequence shots and displacements that would come to be associated with camera virtuosos.