Grigori Aleksandrov | |
|---|---|
Григорий Александров | |
 Aleksandrov in 1934 | |
| Born | 23 January 1903 Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 16 December 1983 (aged 80) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow 55°43′29″N 37°33′15″E / 55.72472°N 37.55417°E |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
| Spouses | |
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov[a] (23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983, known by artist name Mormonenko)[b][2] was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973.[3] He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950.
Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova.
Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light-hearted showcase ever designed for the Stalin-era USSR.[4]
- ^ "Lyubov Orlova, the Great and Double-Faced". tvc.ru (in Russian). TV Center. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ Jay Leyda. Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. Princeton University Press, 1983. Page 124n.
- ^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 41–43. ISBN 978-1442268425.
- ^ See, e.g., Evgenii Dobrenko, Eric Naiman. The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space. University of Washington Press, 2003. Page 205.
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