Aksel Lundin

Aksel Lundin (1886–1943) was a Soviet actor and film director of Swedish origin, one of the first filmmakers at Odesa Film Studio, and a children’s film pioneer. After the creation of VUFKU in 1922, Lundin, along with Petro Chardynin, Mykola Saltykov and Les Kurbas, became the key figure in the so-called “Hollywood on the Black Sea.” By the end of 1928, he had firmly established a reputation as a master of children’s cinema. Head of the Odesa and Kyiv Film Studios Pavlo Neches considered it necessary to “continue to use Lundin for the production of children’s films.”