Arcady Boytler
Arcady Sergeevich Boytler Rososky was a Russian-born Mexican film producer, director and screenwriter, most renowned for his films during the Golden [age of the cinema of Mexico|golden age] of Mexican cinema.
Boytler was born in Moscow, lived on Riga since 1895 till 1914. Had a Latvian citizenship from 1917 till 1934. During the 1920s, he started filming silent comedies. A collaborator of Sergei Eisenstein, he was called "the Russian Rooster" when he came to Mexico to film The [Woman of the Port |La mujer del puerto]. In 1937 he filmed ¡Así es mi tierra!, which followed the model of Fernando [de Fuentes]'s classic Allá en el Rancho Grande. However, the film subverted the Mexican Revolutionary genre by making the general into the villain.
Boytler died of heart disease in the Mexican Federal District on November 24, 1965, at the age of 70.
Filmography
Cinema of Mexico
- Como yo te quería producer
- Amor prohibido director, producer and screenwriter
- Una luz en mi camino
- El capitán aventurero director and screenwriter
- Heads or Tails director and screenwriter
- ¡Así es mi tierra! director and screenwriter
- Celos director, screenwriter, and editor
- El tesoro de Pancho Villa director, screenwriter, and editor
- Revista musical director
- La mujer del puerto director and supervising editor
- Joyas de México director
- Mano a mano director and screenwriter
- Un espectador impertinente director, actor and screenwriter
- ¡Que [viva México! |¡Que viva México!] extra
Cinema of Chile
- El buscador de fortuna director and actor
Cinema of Germany
- Boytler Tötet Langeweile actor and director
- Boytler gegen Chaplin actor and director
Cinema of Russia
- Arkadij Controller Spalnych Vagonov actor and director
- Arkadij Zhenitsa actor and director
- Arkadij Sportsman actor and director