Konstantin Yudin

Konstantin Yudin
Born	Konstantin Konstantinovich Yudin 8 January 1896 Semyonovskoe village, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	30 March 1957 Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1927—1957

Konstantin Konstantinovich Yudin (Russian: Константи́н Константи́нович Ю́дин) (1896—1957) was a Soviet film director.

Born in the Semyonovskoe village near Dmitrov (now Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast) into a Russian working class family, one of the five children of Konstantin Ilyich Yudin, a miller who died in 1904. The kids then moved to the neighboring village to live with their grandparents. After graduating from school Yudin was brought to Moscow to work for hire. By the age of 18 he became a professional jockey working at the Moscow hippodrome. In 1917 he was suggested a place at the Pyatigorsk hippodrome. Shortly after the Russian Civil War started. Konstantin joined the Red Army and fought as part of the cavalry in the North Caucasus up till 1920, then returned to Moscow.

In 1926 he joined his brother Nikolai Yudin who was working as a cinematographer and took part in several documentaries before enrolling in the State Institute of Cinematography to study directing. After graduating in 1932 he spent seven years working as an assistant director with Grigori Aleksandrov (on Volga-Volga), Boris Yurtsev and Igor Ilyinsky.

In 1939 Yudin directed his first feature film — a comedy A Girl with a Temper about misadventures of the village girl in Moscow, with Valentina Serova in the leading role. He later invited Serova to his next movie, Hearts of Four, along with Lyudmila Tselikovskaya and Yevgeny Samoylov. A light romantic comedy about a love rectangle was finished in 1941, shortly before the Great Patriotic War, and thus put on hold up until 1945 when it was finally released to a great success (5th place in the box office with 19.4 mln viewers).

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