Alexander Dovzhenko
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Alexander or Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko, also known as Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important
Dovzhenko in the 1930s
Dovzhenko's birth house in Sosnytsia, now a memorial museum
Dovzhenko (left) with Kost Hordiyenko and Mykola Khvylyovy in the editor's office of Vsesvit magazine, 1925
Dovzhenko filming in 1932
Earth (1930 film)
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Earth is a 1930 Soviet Ukrainian silent film by Alexander Dovzhenko. The film concerns the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners under the First Five-Year Plan. It is the t
Alexander Dovzhenko
…fighting for the revolution, which established him as a major filmmaker of his era. Dovzhenko's following "Ukraine Trilogy" (Zvenigora, Arsenal, and Earth), are his most well-known works in the West. The trilogy was produced by the All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration during the New Economic Policy…
Theatrical release poster
A shot from the first montage, showing a woman standing next to a sunflower against the sky