FILM DIRECTOR

Alexander Dovzhenko

1894 - 1956

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Oleksander Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Довженко, Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko; Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko; September 10 [O.S. August 29] 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Dovzhenko has received more than 159,674 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Alexander Dovzhenko is the 157th most popular film director (up from 164th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 115th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

Alexander Dovzhenko is most famous for his films Earth, Zvenigora, and Arsenal.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 157 out of 1,580. Before him are Jonathan Demme, Aki Kaurismäki, Jacques Demy, Claude Lanzmann, Kathryn Bigelow, and Victor Sjöström. After him are Jiří Menzel, István Szabó, Sergio Corbucci, Abel Gance, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Robert Wise.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 41. Before him are Paul Blobel, Percy Spencer, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Heinrich Lübke, Karl Böhm, and Josef von Sternberg. After him are Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, Kim Hyong-jik, Elisabeth of Romania, Sergey Ilyushin, Nazli Sabri, and Leo Kanner. Among people deceased in 1956, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 27. Before him are A. A. Milne, Reinhold Glière, Josef Hoffmann, Wilhelm Miklas, H. L. Mencken, and Anastasio Somoza García. After him are August Kubizek, Hiram Bingham III, Lyonel Feininger, Elisabeth of Romania, Daniel Swarovski, and Joseph Wirth.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 104 out of 913. Before him are Lev Shestov (1866), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Mamai (1335), Karol Szymanowski (1882), and Emil Gilels (1916). After him are Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875), Ivan Paskevich (1782), Isaac Stern (1920), Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (1640), Alexander Samsonov (1859), and Milla Jovovich (1975).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 2. Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940). After him are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Maya Deren (1917), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Aleksandr Ptushko (1900).

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Filmography

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