Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Country: Ukraine
Biography: Alexander Dovzhenko (b. 10 September1894) was a writer, producer and director of films, and is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, whose films often celebrated the lives and work of his fellow Ukrainians.
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 14 (Director), 14 (Writer)
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The Great War (World War I) has brought devastation, heartache, and hardship to the Ukrainian people... (imdb)
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. (imdb)
Zvenigora is less a film than a tone poem, set forth by master Russian cinematic poet Alexander Dovzhenko. Moving outside the studio system for the first time (it was his fourth film), Dovzhenko uses lyrical location shots of rural Ukraine and its farmers to excellent advantage. (All Movie Guide)
After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation. (Wikipedia)
Thematically, Aleksandr Dovzhenko's stunning Aerograd (Frontier) is a sequel to his staggering Earth (1930). The connection is this: both films assault kulaks, "Old Believers"--Christians--whose selfish desire to maintain private ownership of land contests the Soviet people's right, by virtue of the Bolshevik Revolution, to claim this land as theirs. (grunes.wordpress.com)
Nikolai Shchors was one of the few indisputable Bolshevik icons of Ukrainian origin; Dovzhenko's film on him began as a specific personal commission from Stalin. (Filmlinc)
Dovzhenko's final feature is a biography of the famed Russian horticulturist, even imagining him as an artist of sorts: his pre-Revolutionary hardships bear a certain Tolstoyan quality, up to and including damnation from the church. (FilmLinc)
An international spy thriller complete with mustache-twirling British villains. Extrapolating on the true-crime assassination of Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, Dovzhenko adds a McGuffin as classic as they come: the slain envoy's pouch, which must be returned to Russia before it's intercepted by the British secret police. (Film Society of Lincoln Center)
Anna Bedford, a young and idealistic girl from Pennsylvania, accepts a State Department assignment to serve in the US Embassy in Moscow shortly after the allied victory over fascist Germany. (imdb)
Yagodka lyubvi (1926) - Short Film
Dovzhenko's debut film, it deals with a dandified barber's attempts to get rid of his "love berry" - his illegitimate offspring. Although a farce, its permissive sexuality can still be considered to be risque. (wikipedia.org)
Bukovina, zemlya Ukrainskaya (1939) - Short Film
Dovzhenko and Solntseva's documentary about the Bukovina region.
The film describes the Russian attack against the Germans, which drove them away from the Dneiper river, and finally out of Ukraine.
It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.