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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 Ukrainian Soviet director, film producer and screenwriter.
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.
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).
May 23, 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.
Earth ( Russian: Земля, lit. ' Earth ', Ukrainian: Земля, translit. Zemlya) is a 1930 Soviet silent film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film concerns the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners under the First Five-Year Plan.
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 Ukrainian Soviet director, film producer and screenwriter.
Dec 20, 2018 · As the son of illiterate farmers, one of fourteen children (one of only two to survive into adulthood), Dovzhenko entered a nation beset by raging strife. In the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution, his homeland was embroiled in a resurgence of nationalism, artistic and cultural regeneration, and violence.
