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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)
Biography submitted by Shmendrek
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A young Russian woman asks a Red Army soldier to spend the night with her in the wake of the Nazi invasion. Fearing she may soon perish, the woman hopes for one night of romance before what could be a horrible demise. (allmovie.com)
A Russian soldier, during the war and retreat, relives the beauty of the Ukraine of his youth, which also had its sorrows, and finds strength in his memories. (bfi.org.uk)
The emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group. (allmovie.com)
At the crux of the routine drama is a small town that is about to go under when a major dam is completed and the area is flooded, creating a sizeable lake. As people return to say good-bye to the lives and the homes they once knew in the town, differences of opinion on the sacrifice they made crop up. At stake is the "Russian" way of life and whether or not progress should include this type of sacrifice for the common good. (allmovie.com)
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
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)
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. (imdb)
The Great War (World War I) has brought devastation, heartache, and hardship to the Ukrainian people... (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)
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