
Known for
Directing
Born
September 10, 1894
Birthplace
Viunyshche, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now part of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]
Died
November 25, 1956 (aged 62)
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (Russian: Александр Петрович Довженко, Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Довженко; September 10 [O.S. August 29] 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.
Although Alexander Dovzhenko's parents were uneducated, his semi-literate grandfather encouraged him to study, leading him to become a teacher at the age of 19. Dovzhenko turned to film in 1926 when he landed in Odesa. His ambitious drive l...
2025
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Short Story
2013
as Self (archive footage)
2007
2004
as Self (archive footage)
1994
1992
as (archival footage), Writer
1992
as Self (archive footage)
1988
1980
as Self (archive footage)
1971
Writer
1967
1966
as (voice)
1965
as Self (archive footage)
1964
Novel
1961
1958
Writer
1951
Director, Screenplay
1949
Director, Writer
1945
Director, Writer
1943
Director, Writer
1940
as (archive footage)
1940
Director, Screenplay, Editor
1939
Director, Screenplay