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Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, 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.
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culture · Soviet-Ukrainian filmmaker (1894–1956) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · writer · film editor · diplomat · director · also Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Alexander Dovzhenko, Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, Dovzhenko
Born 29 August 1894 · Died 25 November 1956 · Q55198
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2026· 4 entries
Межа. Новини України.: Ukrainian Film Dovzhenko First Glance Sets October 2026 Release Date
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Yahoo: Russian attack damages Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv – photos, video
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Moviefone: Oleksandr Dovzhenko. Odesa Dawn
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2016· 1 entry
After the Ukrainian government had announced a programme of 'decommunisation' of place names, Karl Liebknecht Street in Melitopol was renamed Oleksandr Dovzhenko Street
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2002· 1 entry
By the British Film Institute to rank the greatest films ever made, and he put Earth second
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize for Poem of the Sea (1959).
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1956· 2 entries
Died 1956-11-25.
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In his dacha in Peredelkino - though the latter was completed by his widow Yulia Solntseva
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950).
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize for Michurin (1949).
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Although it was revised so many times, in order to get political approval, that according to one historian, "a large part of the final version was made without him
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1943· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Red Banner (1943).
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1941· 1 entry
Awarded Stalin Prize for Shchors (1941).
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Honored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR (1940).
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1939· 1 entry
During a time of mass repressions, and some of his statements contradict information that was preserved in archives
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1935· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin for Aerograd (1935).
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1928· 2 entries
The story of a young adventurer who becomes a bandit and counter-revolutionary and comes to a bad end, while his virtuous brother spends the film fighting for the revolution, which established him as a major filmmaker of
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His eponymous movie showed a perspective on the event from the opposite side of the barricades, creating what is widely seen as a propaganda film
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1920· 1 entry
The party merged with the Communist Party, leading Dovzhenko to join the Communists
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1919· 2 entries
Following the uprising against Skoropadsky, although this admission does not appear in his autobiographical statement
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“s Army in 1919 following the uprising against Skoropadsky, although this admission does not appear in his autobiographical statement. At the same time, Dovzhenko stated he had never taken part in battles against the Red Army. According to art historian Roman Rosliak, Dovzhenko”
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1918· 2 entries
As a supporter of the Ukrainian People's Republic
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And united with the left wing of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party in the following year
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1917· 2 entries
Returned to Kyiv, where he studied at Kyiv Commercial Institute (today Kyiv National Economic University) and later Kyiv Academy of Arts (today National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture), but he did not finish an
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There are gaps in Dovzhenko's biographical records
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1911· 1 entry
Enrolled in the Hlukhiv Teacher's Institute (today Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University of Oleksandr Dovzhenko), from which Dovzhenko graduated in 1914
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1895· 1 entry
Four of his elder brothers had died during a scarlet fever epidemic, while his eldest brother died after contracting typhus in 1905
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-08-29.
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