Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894-1956) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 62
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin.
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1959Lenin PrizeAward1956Died25 November 19561950People's Artist of the RSFSRAward1949Stalin PrizeAward1943Order of the Red BannerAward1941Stalin PrizeAward1940Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSRAward1935Order of LeninAward1894Born29 August 1894
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Nikolai Gritsenko Oleksandr directed Farewell, America (1951)
Stepan Shagaida Also in Vasya, the Reformer, Ivan and Aerograd
Yevgeny Samoylov Oleksandr directed Shchors (1939)
Sergei Bondarchuk Oleksandr directed Michurin (1949)
Yury Lyubimov Oleksandr directed Michurin (1949)
Mikhail Zharov Oleksandr directed Michurin (1949)
Viktor Khokhryakov Oleksandr directed Michurin (1949)
Alexandr Chvylja Oleksandr directed Ivan (1932)
Grigori Belov Oleksandr directed Michurin (1949)
Hans Klering Oleksandr directed Shchors (1939)
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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 KakhovkaAwards
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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.
Country
Russia
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1956 · aged 62
