Mark Donskoy

Mark Donskoy was born in Odessa, in 1901 according to most sources, into a poor Jewish family, the son of a mason and stove-maker. A soldier in the Red Army during the civil war, he spent ten months in captivity. He studied psychiatry in Crimea, graduated in 1925 from the law faculty in Simferopol, worked in investigation and at the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and the same year published autobiographical stories about the Crimean underground. In 1926 Viktor Shklovsky brought him into a film factory in Moscow. He died in Moscow on 21 March 1981.

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• CinemaДорогою ціноюMark Donskoy · 1957Cinema