Les Kurbas
Ukrainian and Soviet actor, theatre director, film director (1887 - 1937) · Russia · On the map · Actors · Died at 50
Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas was a Ukrainian movie and theater director. He is considered by many to be the most important Ukrainian theater director of the 20th century.
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He formed, together with Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors, the Soviet theater avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian avant-garde art. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance. He was murdered by the Soviet regime, during Stalin's Great Terror.
