We can safely say that the 20th century was the age of directing. Under the influence of the director—namely the organizer, the teacher, the creator—both theatre and, of course, cinema developed. In the 1910s, three directors rise in America: the pioneer of American comedy Mack Sennett, the king of the western Thomas Harper Ince, and David Wark Griffith. And then came the era of Charlie Chaplin. In short, film was becoming a high and genuine art.
Gradually, the center of world cinema moves to the suburbs of Los Angeles—Hollywood. In the 1920s, famous European directors consider it an honor to work here…
Russian directors made a notable contribution to cinema in the early stages. Just name the names of Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Yakov Protazanov…
This audiobook tells about the most famous theatre and film directors in the world.