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Filmmaker · Russia

Grigori Aleksandrov

Died in 1983

Grigori Aleksandrov (1903-1983), born Mormonenko in Yekaterinburg on 23 January 1903, worked as a teenager at the city's opera and studied the violin. An actor at the Proletkult in Moscow from 1921, he met Sergei Eisenstein there and became his collaborator. He later directed musical comedies in which his wife Lyubov Orlova played the lead. He was named People's Artist of the Soviet Union and died in Moscow on 16 December 1983.

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