MOSFILM

History of the Mosfilm concern studios foundation

«Mosfilm» does not need a special presentation because it has been a biggest film industry association of the world during many decades. The history of this huge film town which is situated on the Vorobyev Hills began in the remote 1920.

Exactly that year two film factories which belonged to prominent film producers of the beginning of the twentieth century A.A.Khanzhonkov and I.N.Jermol'ev were nationalized and handed over under the authority of the All-Russia photo-and-film department.
In December 1922 this department was transformed in Goskino, and film studios of Khanzhonkov and Jermol'ev which were under its authority got new names: the First factory and the Third factory of Goskino correspondingly. Mosfilm was founded on the base of these factories, it became a formed creative team collective towards January 1924, when the first full-length film "Up on the Wings" (director Boris Mikhin) was shown on the screens all over the country. Since then this state enterprise which received its present name in 1935 has been produced films regularly.

The famous emblem – the sculpture "Worker and peasant woman" by V.Mukhina in front of the Spasskaya tower – appeared for the first time in 1947 in the film "Spring" by Grigoriy Alexandrov. But there were also different versions of emblem... In the course of their activity Mosfilm studios produced more than 2500 films and several generations of native and foreign spectators were brought up with these films. A great deal of them are included into the world treasury of cinematography and won prizes of many festivals in our country and abroad. Now our studios also tend to follow their creative traditions and keep up the image of the biggest film association in Europe.