<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the "golden age" of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films -- especially The Mother, The End of St Petersburg and Storm over Asia -- are classics of silent cinema. Like Eisenstein, Pudovkin was also a major theorist of film. This new translation of Pudovkin's seminal writings brings together his most important essays from his two key books, <I>Film Technique</I> and <I>Film Acting</I>. The essays highlight the development of Pudovkin's revolutionary thinking on scripts, directing, time, sound, and acting.<BR></DIV>