Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Birthday
1894/09/10
Day of death
1956/11/25 (62 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Viunyshche, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now part of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Also know as
Довженко Олександр Петрович, Oleksandr Dowschenko, Alexander Petrowitsch Dowschenko, Alexander Dowschenko, ألكسندر دوفجنكو, Αλεξάντερ Ντοβζένκο, Ալեքսանդր Դովժենկո, אלכסנדר דובז'נקו, オレクサンドル・ドヴジェンコ, 알렉산드르 도브젠코, 亚历山大·彼得罗维奇·杜甫仁科
Biography
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1940) Our Cinema
as (archive footage)
(1966) Sonata about the artist
as (voice)
(1992) Dovzhenko. Diary. 1941-1945
as (archival footage)
(1980) Larisa
as Self (archive footage)
(1927) The Diplomatic Pouch
as stoker
(2007) How The Steel Was Tempered - On Screen and In Life
as ---
(1992) Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The Contemplations After Life
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Odesa Dawn
as Self (archive footage)
(2013) Dovzhenko. Ukrainian Homer of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1965) Triumph Over Violence
as Self (archive footage)
(2025) Dovzhenko. Full of Compromise
as Self (archive footage)