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FILM DIRECTOR

Alexander Dovzhenko

1894 - 1956

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Dovzhenko has received more than 210,367 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Alexander Dovzhenko is the 167th most popular film director (down from 157th in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 104th 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 167 out of 1,581Before him are Volker Schlöndorff, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Rivette, Nagisa Oshima, William Friedkin, and Masaki Kobayashi. After him are Jonathan Demme, Kathryn Bigelow, Bille August, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jesús Franco, and Nikita Mikhalkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 43Before him are Heinrich Lübke, Paul Blobel, Josef von Sternberg, Claude Cahun, Nazli Sabri, and Kim Hyong-jik. After him are Elisabeth of Romania, Edogawa Ranpo, Lothar von Richthofen, Sergey Ilyushin, Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, and Aino Aalto. Among people deceased in 1956, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 30Before him are Reinhold Glière, Wilhelm Miklas, Bolesław Bierut, Joseph Wirth, Anastasio Somoza García, and Daniel Swarovski. After him are Elisabeth of Romania, William Boeing, Marie Laurencin, Mistinguett, August Kubizek, and Lyonel Feininger.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 112 out of 1,083Before him are Milla Jovovich (1975), Stepan Makarov (1848), Alexander Samsonov (1859), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), and Oleksandr Turchynov (1964). After him are Sofia Rotaru (1947), Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Georgy Gapon (1870), Sviatopolk II of Kiev (1050), and Roald Hoffmann (1937).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Alexander Dovzhenko ranks 3Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940) and Sergei Bondarchuk (1920). After him are Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Maya Deren (1917), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Grigory Chukhray (1921).

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