Mark Donskoy

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-03-06 (80 years old)

Deathday

1981-03-20

Place of Birth

Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

Mark Donskoy

Biography

Mark Semyonovich Donskoy[a] (6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1901 – 21 March 1981) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and studio administrative head. Donskoy was born in Odessa in a Jewish family. During the Civil War, he served in the Red Army (1921-1923), and was held captive by the White Russians for ten months. After he was freed, he was discharged from military service. He studied psychology and psychiatry at the Crimean Medical School. In 1925 he graduated from the legal department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Crimean M.V. Frunze University in Simferopol. He worked in investigative bodies, in the Supreme Court of the Ukra...

Acting

1927

Prostitute

as Passerby

Production

1947

1944

Rainbow

as Director

1939

1940

My Universities

as Director

1959

Foma Gordeyev

as Director

1956

Mother

as Director

1957

1956

Mother

as Writer

1934

1927

In the Big City

as Director

1945

The Taras Family

as Director

1928

1966

A Mother's Heart

as Director

1962

Hello, Children!

as Director

1941

The Romantics

as Director

1973

Nadezhda

as Director

1945

The Taras Family

as Screenplay

1978

The Orlovs

as Screenplay

1978

The Orlovs

as Director

1959

Foma Gordeyev

as Writer

1939

1940

1927

1940

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