Alexander Dovzhenko | |
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| Born | Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko September 10, 1894 |
| Died | November 25, 1956 (aged 62) Peredelkino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia |
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| Years active | 1926–1956 |
| Spouse | Yuliya Solntseva |
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko[1] (Russian: Александр Петрович Довженко, Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Довженко; September 10 [O.S. August 29] 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian[2] origin.[3][4] 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.
- ^ Oleksander Dovzhenko at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
- ^ Е. Я. Марголит, ДОВЖЕНКО//Great Russian Encyclopedia [1] Archived 2020-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova (2019). The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. Bloomsbury. pp. 1934–1935. ISBN 978-1838718497.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 187–191. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.