FILM DIRECTOR

Alexander Rou

1906 - 1973

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Alexander Arturovich Rou (Russian: Александр Артурович Роу, 8 March [O.S. 23 February] 1906 – 28 December 1973), also known by his Irish name Alastar Arthur Rowe , was a Soviet film director. He received the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Rou has received more than 51,355 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Rou is the 842nd most popular film director (down from 817th in 2019), the 1,485th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,398th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Rou ranks 842 out of 2,041. Before him are Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Hong Sang-soo, Raoul Coutard, Benjamin Christensen, Rustam Ibragimbekov, and Rosa von Praunheim. After him are Luis Puenzo, Sergio Martino, András Kovács, Dara Singh, Sergei Loznitsa, and Irwin Winkler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alexander Rou ranks 232. Before him are Olga Taussky-Todd, Kathleen Kenyon, Frank H. Netter, Harri Larva, Johnny Hodges, and Knut Kroon. After him are Herbert Wehner, Alexander Gelfond, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Hermione Baddeley, Rolf Singer, and Édouard Artigas. Among people deceased in 1973, Alexander Rou ranks 163. Before him are Louis St. Laurent, Alina Szapocznikow, Joe E. Brown, Kid Ory, David Murray, and Charles Daniels. After him are Hilda Geiringer, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Harold Hotelling, Conrad Aiken, and Gösta Dunker.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Rou ranks 1,485 out of 3,761. Before him are Elsa Brändström (1888), Andrey Lukanov (1938), Joseph Bové (1784), Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), and Apollon Maykov (1821). After him are Ivan Kulibin (1735), Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), Valentin Ivanov (1961), Alla Kushnir (1941), Alexander Gelfond (1906), and Sergei Mavrodi (1955).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Alexander Rou ranks 34. Before him are Mark Zakharov (1933), Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Ivan Pyryev (1901), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), Vladimir Gardin (1877), and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov (1877). After him are Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Esfir Shub (1894), Ivan Ivanov-Vano (1900), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), Alexandre Volkoff (1885), and Lev Atamanov (1905).

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Filmography

Father Frost
Director
A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
Mar 24o 19656.3 / 10
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
Director
The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.
Dec 15o 19617.3 / 10
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors
Director
Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.
May 5o 19636.9 / 10