FILM DIRECTOR

Grigori Aleksandrov

1903 - 1983

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Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (Russian: Григо́рий Васи́льевич Алекса́ндров; artist name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigori Aleksandrov has received more than 136,832 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Grigori Aleksandrov is the 489th most popular film director (up from 505th in 2019), the 901st most popular biography from Russia (up from 915th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Film Director.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Grigori Aleksandrov has had the most page views in the with 114,499 views, followed by English (18,698), and Polish (2,286). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Crimean Tatar (929.51%), Chinese (224.83%), and Greek (91.10%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 489 out of 2,041. Before him are Fernando Meirelles, Elio Petri, Renny Harlin, Jörn Donner, Jim Abrahams, and Louis Delluc. After him are John Waters, Curtis Hanson, Alf Sjöberg, Alexander Kluge, Richard Thorpe, and Pierre Woodman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 129. Before him are Cigerxwîn, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Amy Johnson, K. Kamaraj, Boris Blacher, and Florence Owens Thompson. After him are Alf Sjöberg, Nikolay Cherkasov, Abba P. Lerner, Ferenc Nagy, Cyril Jackson, and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Among people deceased in 1983, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 90. Before him are Jørgen Juve, Donald Maclean, Ángel Labruna, Lamberto Maggiorani, Florence Owens Thompson, and Salo Flohr. After him are Hennes Weisweiler, Jerzy Andrzejewski, John Vorster, Vladimir Bakarić, Eric Hoffer, and Roy Sullivan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 901 out of 3,761. Before him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Andrey Myagkov (1938), Alexey Maresyev (1916), and Arkady Rotenberg (1951). After him are George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (1852), Nikolai Korotkov (1874), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Edgar Froese (1944), Sergey Aksakov (1791), and Nikolay Cherkasov (1903).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 15. Before him are Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Alexander Sokurov (1951), and Yuri Norstein (1941). After him are Gleb Panfilov (1934), Boris Barnet (1902), Mikhail Romm (1901), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yakov Protazanov (1881), and Sergei Gerasimov (1906).

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Filmography

Strike
Director
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Apr 28o 19257.348 / 10
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Director
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
Jan 20o 19286.9 / 10
Battleship Potemkin
Director
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
Dec 24o 19257.642 / 10