Pavel Klushantsev

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Pavel Klushantsev (b. 25 February 1910 in Saint Petersburg, Russia - d. 17 April 1999, St. Petersburg) was a Russian film director, producer and script writer.

His 1962 feature, Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms), was edited and expanded by Roger Corman for American distribution as Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) by Curtis Harrington and as Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) by Peter Bogdanovich. It is the original scenes which draw the most acclaim. A self-taught special effects engineer far ahead of his time, Klushantsev devised many effects and techniques used by major motion pictures for decades to come. He is especially noted for his meticulous design and creation of "John the Robot" featured in Planeta Bur, with over 42 points of articulation on its major body joints, one of the most technically complex robot costumes of its time.

An English language documentary on Klushantsev's life and achievements, aptly titled The Star Dreamer, was released in 2002 by Danish Vesterholt Film and TV.

[edit] Filmography

• Семь барьеров (1935)
• Неустрашимые (1937)
• Полярное сияние (1946)
• Meteors - Meteory/Метеориты (1946)
• The Universe - Vselennaya/Вселенная (1951)
• Road to the Stars - Doroga k zvezdam/Дорога к звёздам (1957)
• Planet of Storms - Planeta Bur/Планета бурь (1962)
• The Moon - Luna/Луна (1965)
• Mars - Марс (1968)
• I see the Earth - Вижу Землю (1970)

[edit] See also

• Cinema of the Soviet Union
• Science fiction cinema

[edit] External links

• Pavel Klushantsev at the Internet Movie Database