Oleksandr Dovzhenko

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Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894-1956)

WritersLived 1894 to 1956 · aged 62

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Languages31

Peak1960s

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Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 11

Dovzhenko's birth house in Sosnytsia, now a memorial museum

Dovzhenko (left) with Kost Hordiyenko and Mykola Khvylyovy in the editor's office of Vsesvit magazine, 1925

Dovzhenko filming in 1932

Poster for Aerograd (1935)

Dovzhenko (left) visiting the front in 1943

Oleksandr Dovzhenko during his later years

Monument to Alexander Dovzhenko in Nova Kakhovka

Awards 13

1959Lenin Prize

1950People's Artist of the RSFSR

1949Stalin Prize

1943Order of the Red Banner

1941Stalin Prize

1940Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR

1935Order of Lenin

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Honored Art Worker of Ukraine

State Stalin Prize, 1st degree

Stalin Prize, 2nd degree

In their orbit 1

SpouseYuliya Solntseva

Connected to Oleksandr 5

Vyacheslav MolotovAlso in Our Cinema (1940)

Sergei BondarchukAlso in Michurin (1949)

Kliment VoroshilovAlso in Our Cinema (1940)

Boris DobronravovAlso in Aerograd (1935)

Nikolai GritsenkoAlso in Farewell, America! (1951)

Writers born in the 1890s 1

Andrei Platonov59.4

About this person

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.