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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Dovzhenko has received more than 231,210 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Alexander Dovzhenko is the 153rd most popular film director (up from 167th in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 112th 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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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 153 out of 2,041. Before him are Jonathan Demme, Frances Marion, Louis Malle, Ettore Scola, Victor Sjöström, and Ed Wood. After him are Shohei Imamura, Otto Preminger, Roland Emmerich, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jesús Franco, and Peter Greenaway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 39. Before him are Kōnosuke Matsushita, Wilhelm Bittrich, Karl Böhm, Nazli Sabri, Dashiell Hammett, and Martha Graham. After him are Josef von Sternberg, Sergey Ilyushin, Paul Blobel, Elisabeth of Romania, Norman Rockwell, and Aino Aalto. Among people deceased in 1956, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 28. Before him are Josef Hoffmann, Kenji Mizoguchi, Bolesław Bierut, Anastasio Somoza García, Wilhelm Miklas, and Joseph Wirth. After him are Émile Borel, Daniel Swarovski, Elisabeth of Romania, August Kubizek, Juan Negrín, and Marie Laurencin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 119 out of 1,365. Before him are Stepan Makarov (1848), Alexander Archipenko (1887), Sofia Rotaru (1947), Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902), Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), and Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904). After him are Otto Preminger (1905), Milla Jovovich (1975), Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895), Dmitry Bortniansky (1751), Vladimir Arnold (1937), and Emil Gilels (1916).

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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), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936).

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