FILM DIRECTOR

Mark Donskoy

1901 - 1981

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Donskoy has received more than 43,915 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mark Donskoy is the 943rd most popular film director (down from 901st in 2019), the 696th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 598th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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  • 49.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mark Donskoy ranks 943 out of 2,041. Before him are Gérard Corbiau, Paul Morrissey, Steve Barron, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Hamo Beknazarian, and Carlo Di Palma. After him are Jasmila Žbanić, Hideo Nakata, Ben Sharpsteen, Giorgi Shengelaia, Idrissa Ouédraogo, and Peter R. Hunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Mark Donskoy ranks 223. Before him are Louis Clarke, Enrique Santos Discépolo, Otto Kaiser, Jakub Berman, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, and Paul Verhoeven. After him are Harry Partch, Rudolf Wetzer, Oleksiy Fedorov, Bebe Daniels, Joseph Wendel, and Sid Atkinson. Among people deceased in 1981, Mark Donskoy ranks 158. Before him are Yury Trifonov, Lev Atamanov, Juan Trippe, Jaap Bakema, Mikhail Zharov, and László Raffinsky. After him are Beulah Bondi, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Jack Northrop, Delfo Cabrera, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, and Elemér Kocsis.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mark Donskoy ranks 696 out of 1,365. Before him are Dmitry Sipyagin (1853), Leonid Stein (1934), Heinrich Schenker (1868), Hennadiy Udovenko (1931), Sofia Yablonska (1907), and Itzik Feffer (1900). After him are Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), Viktor Sadovnichiy (1939), Volodymyr Onyshchenko (1949), Leo Deutsch (1855), Jan Szczepanik (1872), and Ariel Durant (1898).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Mark Donskoy ranks 21. Before him are Aleksei Kapler (1904), Roman Karmen (1906), Aleksander Ford (1908), Janusz Majewski (1931), David Cherkassky (1931), and Lucian Pintilie (1933). After him are Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Konstantin Lopushansky (1947), Roman Viktyuk (1936), Frederic Zelnik (1885), Vadim Abdrashitov (1945), and Volodymyr Dakhno (1932).

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Filmography

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
Director
Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
Sep 27o 19386.1 / 10
My Apprenticeship
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Second entry in Ukrainian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer (Alexei Lyarsky) was on his own, looking for a purpose and place in life.
Sep 12o 19395.9 / 10
The Village Teacher
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A life-long story of a romantic school teacher who left imperial St. Petersburg for teaching country children. Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people and examples by 1880s revolutionary "People's Will" member teachers, a young woman spent her life in a village and evidenced the changes a Russian village has undergone from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to late 1940s.
Jun 6o 19475.4 / 10