
Known for
Directing
Born
March 6, 1901
Birthplace
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Died
March 20, 1981 (aged 80)
Mark Semyonovich Donskoy (6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1901 – 21 March 1981) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and studio administrative head. Donskoy was born in Odessa in a Jewish family. During the Civil War, he served in the Red Army (1921-1923), and was held captive by the White Russians for ten months. After he was freed, he was discharged from military service.
He studied psychology and psychiatry at the Crimean Medical School. In 1925 he graduated from the legal department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Crimean M.V. Frunze University in Simferopol. He worked in investigative bodies, in the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR, and in the bar association. He published a...
1978
Director, Screenplay
1973
Director
1972
Consulting Producer
1967
Director
1966
Director
1962
Director
1959
Director, Writer
1957
Director
1956
Director, Writer
1949
Director
1947
Director
1945
Director, Screenplay
1944
Director
1942
Screenplay, Director
1942
Director
1941
Director
1940
Director, Writer
1940
Producer
1939
Director, Writer
1938
Director, Writer
1934
Director
1929
Director
1928
Editor
1927
Director, Writer
1927
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