Sergei Yutkevich
Versatile, highly regarded veteran of the Soviet film industry who began his career in his mid-teens designing stage sets for fellow student Sergei Eisenstein. Yutkevich then co-founded the experimental Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEX) in 1921, worked as assistant to Abram Room and made his feature directing debut with "Lace" (1928), one of the earliest Soviet sound films.