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Aleksandr Dovzhenko |
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11th September 1894 |
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Sosnitsa, Chernigov province, Russia [now Chernihiv province, Ukraine] |
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Alexander Dovzhenko was the most famous of Ukrainian filmmakers, whose two best known films are Arsenal (1928) and Earth (1930).
He was born on August 29, 1894 (Old Style; September 10, 1894 New Style) to Petro Semenovych Dovzhenko and Odarka Ermolaivna Dovzhenko in Viunyshche, a district in the small town of Sosnytsia in the Chernihiv Province of Ukraine. His ancestors were Cossacks who in the eighteenth century migrated to Sosnytsia from the neighbouring province of Poltava. Alexander became the seventh of fourteen children. But due to the multiple losses in his family, he became the oldest child by the time he turned eleven.
Dovzhenko became a teacher and only at age 32 turned into a filmmaker. He was a mentor to the young Ukrainian filmmakers Larisa Shepitko and Sergei Parajanov. Dovzhenko died on november 25, 1956 in Moscow.
Films
- Yagodka lyubvi , 1926
- Vasya reformator, (Vasya, the Reformer ) 1926
- Sumka dipkuryera, 1927
- Zvenigora, 1928
- Arsenal, 1928
- Zemlya (Earth), 1930
- Ivan, 1932
- Aerograd ("Air City"or "Frontier"), 1935
- Bukovina, zemlya Ukrainskaya (Bukovina, a Ukrainian Land), 1939
- Shchors, 1939, codirected by Yuliya Solntseva
- Osvobozhdeniye (Liberation), 1940, codirected by Yuliya Solntseva
- Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu (1943), aka (UK)"Battle for Soviet Russia"("politically correct" British translation of the original title), aka (USA) Ukraine in Flames
- Strana rodnaya (Soviet Earth),1945
- Pobeda na Pravoberezhnoi Ukraine i izgnaniye nemetsikh zakhvatchikov za predeli Ukrainskikh sovietskikh zemel (Victory in Ukraine and the Expulsion of the German invaders from the Boundaries of the Ukrainian Soviet lands), 1945
- Michurin (Life In Bloom), 1948
- Farewell, America, 1949
- Poema o more (Poem of the Sea), codirected by Yuliya Solntseva
Writings
- Alexander Dovzhenko, The Poet as Filmmaker: Selected Writings. Edited by Marco Carynnyk (Cambridge, MA, 1973)
Secondary Literature
- Vance Kepley Jr, The cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko : in the service of the state, Madison : The University of Wisconsin, 1986
- George O. Liber, Alexander Dovzhenko: a life in Soviet film, British Film Institute 2002
- Bohdan Y. Nebesio (ed.), The cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko, Edmonton, AB, Canada : Canadian institute of Ukrainian studies 1994
External Links
- John Riley, 'A (Ukrainian) Life in Soviet Film: Liber's _Alexander Dovzhenko_', _Film-Philosophy_, vol. 7 no. 31, October 2003
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