Lenfilm

Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" (Russian: Киностудия Ленфи́льм) is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners, and several private film studios, which are operating on the premises. Since August 2007, the new Chief Executive Officer of OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is V... more

Kinostudiya "Lenfilm" (Russian: Киностудия Ленфи́льм) is a production unit of the Russian film industry, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners, and several private film studios, which are operating on the premises. Since August 2007, the new Chief Executive Officer of OAO "Kinostudiya Lenfilm" is Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Telnov. St. Petersburg was home to several Russian and French film studios since the early 1900s. In 1908 the St. Petersburg businessman Vladislav Karpinsky opened his film factory "Ominum Film" which produced documentaries and feature films for local theatres. During the 1910s, one of the most active private film studios was "Neptun" in St. Petersburg, where such figures as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lily Brik made their first silent films, released in 1917 and 1918. The territory of Lenfilm was originally in the private... less