Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-09-10 (62 years old)

Deathday

1956-11-25

Place of Birth

Viunyshche, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now part of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. 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. Although Oleksandr Dovzhenko's parents were uneducated, his semi-literate grandfather encouraged him to study, leading him to become a teacher at the age of 19. Dovzhenko turned to film in 1926 when he landed in Odesa. His ambitious drive led to the production of his second-ever screenplay, Vasya the Reformer (which he al...

Acting

1940

Our Cinema

as (archive footage)

1992

Dovzhenko. Diary. 1941-1945

as (archival footage)

1980

Larisa

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1930

Earth

as Director

1935

Aerograd

as Director

1935

Aerograd

as Writer

1928

Zvenyhora

as Director

1929

Arsenal

as Director

1929

Arsenal

as Writer

1939

Shors

as Director

1932

Ivan

as Director

1927

1926

Love's Berries

as Director

1949

Life in Bloom

as Director

1951

1951

Farewell, America!

as Screenplay

1943

1940

Liberation

as Director

1926

1943

1930

Earth

as Writer

1930

Earth

as Editor

1971

1949

Life in Bloom

as Writer

1928

Zvenyhora

as Writer

1928

Zvenyhora

as Editor

1958

1967

1940

Liberation

as Screenplay

1940

Liberation

as Editor

1926

1939

Shors

as Screenplay

1927

1929

Arsenal

as Producer

1926

1926

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