FILM DIRECTOR

Aleksandr Alov

1923 - 1983

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov (September 26, 1923 – June 12, 1983, born Lapsker) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 (together with Vladimir Naumov). His 1981 film Teheran 43 won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. After military service in the Great Patriotic War, Alov studied with Igor Savchenko at VGIK, graduating in 1951. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Alov has received more than 24,810 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandr Alov is the 1,332nd most popular film director, the 890th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksandr Alov ranks 1,332 out of 2,041. Before him are Ettore Giannini, Bruno Barreto, Dinara Asanova, Steve Miner, Aleksandr Zarkhi, and Jerzy Antczak. After him are Piotr Szulkin, Frank Pierson, Douglas Trumbull, Peter Medak, Kurt Neumann, and Bent Hamer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Aleksandr Alov ranks 403. Before him are Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Helen Murray Free, Paavo Lonkila, Ruth Williams Khama, Avram Davidson, and Robert Sabatier. After him are Dolores Fuller, Bill Bruce, Jorge Romo, Doc Watson, James Stockdale, and Vic Seixas. Among people deceased in 1983, Aleksandr Alov ranks 228. Before him are Gregorio Blasco, Lutz Eigendorf, Tomás Ojeda, Betty Nuthall, Derek J. de Solla Price, and Nils Engdahl. After him are Walter Slezak, Miron Białoszewski, Slim Pickens, Joseph Ruttenberg, Kalevi Kotkas, and Gerry Hitchens.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Aleksandr Alov ranks 890 out of 1,365. Before him are Leonid Bartenyev (1933), Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879), Yury Onufriyenko (1961), Yuriy Nikiforov (1970), Jerzy Antczak (1929), and Vitaliy Parakhnevych (1969). After him are Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894), Viktor Onopko (1969), Rose Friedman (1910), Viacheslav Semenov (1947), Andriy Parubiy (1971), and Andriy Kuzmenko (1968).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Aleksandr Alov ranks 30. Before him are Roman Viktyuk (1936), Frederic Zelnik (1885), Vadim Abdrashitov (1945), Volodymyr Dakhno (1932), Leonid Osyka (1940), and Jerzy Antczak (1929). After him are Lev Arnshtam (1905), Boris Sagal (1923), Vadim Perelman (1963), Felix Sobolev (1931), Nikolay Akimov (1901), and Vera Stroyeva (1903).

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Filmography

Teheran '43
Director
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.
Jul 8th 19816.2 / 10
The Flight
Director
The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile. Sentimental without syrup, tragic and comical at the same time.
Jan 14th 19715.7 / 10
Peace to Him Who Enters
Director
The time is World War II. Lidiya Shaporenko plays a pregnant German woman, trapped behind Russian lines. When the woman goes into labor, three loyal Soviets deliver her to a field hospital: a newly graduated officer, an affable truck driver, and a soldier shell-shocked into muteness. The dangerous trip to the hospital ends up a rite of passage for all concerned. The winner of a special gold medal at the Venice Film Festival, Peace to Him Who Enters was originally released in the USSR in 1961 under the title Mir Vkhodyashchemu.
Sep 4th 19615.2 / 10