Oleksandr Dovzhenko
1894 – 1956 · aged 62
Soviet Ukrainian screenwriter, film producer and director (1894–1956)
- Born
- 1894 · Sosnytsia
- Died
- 25 Nov 1956 · Peredelkino
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 1894BornBorn in Sosnytsia
- 1935AwardOrder of Lenin
- 1940AwardHonored Art Worker of the Ukrainian SSR
- 1941AwardStalin Prize
- 1943AwardOrder of the Red Banner
- 1949AwardStalin Prize
- 1950AwardPeople's Artist of the RSFSR
- 25 Nov 1956DiedDied in Peredelkino
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1894 – 1956).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
Biography
Alexander or Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko, also known as Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (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.
Text from the Wikipedia article Alexander Dovzhenko, CC BY-SA 4.0
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