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Lev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family that moved to Tambov after losing their estate. He later relocated to Moscow with his mother three years after his father Vladimir Sergeyevich Kuleshov died in 1911.
In 1919 Lev Kuleshov headed the first Soviet film courses at the National Film School which became the world's first film school under his leadership. This institution trained notable students including Vsevolod Pudovkin, Boris Barnet, Mikhail Romm, and Aleksandra Khokhlova who eventually became his wife.
The Lev Kuleshov Effect demonstrates that viewers interpret Ivan Mozzhukhin's unchanged expression differently when juxtaposed against varying images such as a meal or a corpse. This experiment proves editing alters audience perception by creating meaning through sequence rather than individual performance.
Lev Kuleshov released The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks in 1924 followed by By the Law in 1926 and The Great Consoler in 1933. He traveled to Tajikistan in 1934 and 1935 to direct Dokhunda before authorities stopped the project due to suspicions regarding Tajik nationalism.
Lev Kuleshov died in Moscow in 1970 after serving as an academic rector at VGIK for 25 years following his last film in 1943. He was awarded the Order of Lenin shortly before his death and is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.