Dimitri Buchowetzki

Dimitri Buchowetzki (1885–1932) born Dmitry Savelyevych Bukhovecky was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor in Germany, Sweden, the US, the UK, and France.[1][2]

Dimitri Buchowetzki
Born	1885 Russian Empire
Died	1932 (aged 46–47) Los Angeles, California United States
Occupation	Film director Film actor screenwriter
Years active	1918 - 1931

Buchowetzki began work at MGM on Love (1927) with Greta Garbo and Ricardo Cortez. However, producer Irving Thalberg was unhappy with the early filming, and replaced Buchowetzki with Edmund Goulding, cinematographer Merritt B. Gerstad with William H. Daniels, and Cortez with John Gilbert.[3]

Selected filmography

Director

• Anita Jo (1919)
• The Last Hour (Germany, 1921)
• The Experiment of Professor Mithrany (Germany, 1921)
• Country Roads and the Big City (Germany 1921)
• Symphony of Death (Germany, 1921)
• Danton (Germany, 1921) with Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, and Conrad Veidt [4]
• Sappho (Germany, 1921) released by Samuel Goldwyn in the US in 1923 as Mad Love, with Pola Negri
• The Brothers Karamazov (Germany, 1921) co-director; with Emil Jannings
• Peter der Große (Germany, 1922) with Emil Jannings
• Othello (Germany, 1922) with Emil Jannings and Werner Krauss
• The Vice of Gambling (1923, Germany)
• Carousel (Sweden, 1923)[5]
• The Countess of Paris (1923)
• Men (1924) with Pola Negri
• Lily of the Dust (1924) with Pola Negri
• The Swan (1925) with Frances Howard
• Graustark (1925) with Norma Talmadge[6]
• Valencia (1926) with Mae Murray
• The Midnight Sun (1926) with Laura La Plante
• The Crown of Lies (1926) with Pola Negri
• The Indictment (1931) French-language version of Manslaughter (1930)
• The Night of Decision (1931) German-language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930)
• Woman in the Jungle (1931) German-language version of The Letter (1929)
• De Sensatie van de Toekomst (1931) co-director of Dutch version of Paramount film Television
• Magie moderne (1931) co-director with Charles de Rochefort of French version of Television
• Stamboul (UK, 1932), also Spanish-language version El hombre que asesino

Screenwriter

• The Bull of Olivera (1921)

References

1. BFI Database entry
2. IMDB entry
3. IMDB entry
4. UCLA Film and Television Archive has partial or complete copies of Danton, Sappho, Othello, and Midnight Sun
5. Antti Alanen Film Diary entry
6. Norma Talmadge webpage

External links

• Dimitri Buchowetzki at IMDb