Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/09/1894
Day of Death
25/11/1956
(62) years old
Place of Birth
Viunyshche, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now part of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
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 Olek... Read More
