Oleksandr Dovzhenko
DirectingBorn: September 10, 1894 in Viunyshche, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now part of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Biography
Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. 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. Although Oleksandr Dovzhenko's parents were uneducated, his semi-literate grandfather encouraged him to study, le...
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