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

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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

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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.

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Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1956 · aged 62
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