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Alexander Dovzhenko

Alexander Dovzhenko

ActorWriterDirectorEditorProducer Sep 10 (died age 62) Viunyshche, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now part of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine] 1926–2025 (99 year career)
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Biography

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (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 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. Although Alexander Dovzhenko's parents we…

Known For

Earth
Film

Earth

Director
Triumph Over Violence
Film

Triumph Over Violence

Self (archive footage)
Arsenal
Film

Arsenal

Director
Zvenigora
Film

Zvenigora

Director
Larisa
Film

Larisa

Self (archive footage)
The Enchanted Desna
Film

The Enchanted Desna

Novel
Aerograd
Film

Aerograd

Director
Poem of the Sea
Film

Poem of the Sea

Writer

Filmography