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Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko [1] (Russian: Александр Петрович Довженко, Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Довженко; September 10 [O.S. August 29] 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian [2] origin.
Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on 10 September 1894 in Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Earth (1930), Shors (1939) and Life in Bloom (1949).
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (born Sept. 11 [Aug. 30, old style], 1894, Sosnitsy, Ukraine, Russia—died Nov. 26, 1956, Moscow) was a motion-picture director who brought international recognition to the Soviet film industry during the 1930s.
20 gru 2018 · Learn about the life and work of Alexander Dovzhenko, a pioneer of Soviet cinema and a visionary filmmaker. Explore his early comedies, his avant-garde experiments, his epic masterpieces, and his political struggles.
Alexander Dovzhenko. Director / Screenwriter / Editor. (1894-1956) Born September 10, Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernigov Oblast, Ukraine) Top 250 Directors. Key Production Country: USSR.
23 maj 2018 · Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko (1894–1956) made several Russian–cinema classics of the 1920s and 1930s, but his heroic epics of peasants triumphing over a harsh, forbidding landscape never quite fully fit the political ideologies of the Stalinist era.
By granting detailed attention to Dovzhenko's family background as a child of impoverished Ukrainian peasants of Left-Bank Cossack background, to his involvement on the non-Bolshevik side in Ukraine's struggle for independence.
