FILM DIRECTOR

Alexander Dovzhenko

1894 - 1956

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Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Dovzhenko is the 152nd most popular film director (up from 153rd in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 119th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Alexander Dovzhenko is most famous for his films Earth, Zvenigora, and Arsenal.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 152 out of 2,041. Before him are Nikita Mikhalkov, Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee, Robert Benton, Erich von Stroheim, and Masaki Kobayashi. After him are Lasse Hallström, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marcel Carné, Moustapha Akkad, Don Siegel, and Abel Gance.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 38. Before him are Satyendra Nath Bose, Dashiell Hammett, Benjamin Graham, Arthur Nebe, Wilhelm Bittrich, and Fyodor Tolbukhin. After him are Wäinö Aaltonen, Martha Graham, Josef von Sternberg, Elisabeth of Romania, Nazli Sabri, and Walter Brennan. Among people deceased in 1956, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 32. Before him are Josef Hoffmann, Kenji Mizoguchi, H. L. Mencken, Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, Anastasio Somoza García, and Wilhelm Miklas. After him are Walter Sydney Adams, Elisabeth of Romania, Daniel Swarovski, Alfredo Ferrari, Joseph Wirth, and August Kubizek.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 123 out of 1,365. Before him are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Stepan Makarov (1848), Yevgeny Primakov (1929), Emil Gilels (1916), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), and Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875). After him are Alexander Samsonov (1859), Georgy Gapon (1870), Nachman of Breslov (1772), Vladimir Arnold (1937), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), and Olga Kurylenko (1979).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 3. Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), and Sergei Bondarchuk (1920). After him are Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), and Les Kurbas (1887).

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