Leonid Trauberg

Leonid Trauberg was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and educator whose career helped shape early Soviet cinema. With Grigori Kozintsev, he co-founded the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), a theater and film collective influential in the development of Soviet film style. Their major collaborations included *The New Babylon* (1929), *One* (1931), and the *Maxim* trilogy (1935–1939).