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Filmmaker · Ukraine

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Died in 1956

Oleksandr Dovzhenko was born on 10 September 1894 in Viunyshche, near Sosnytsia, into a large peasant family. Educated at the pedagogical institute of Hlukhiv, he was a schoolteacher in Zhytomyr, left in 1921 for a diplomatic post abroad, then drew caricatures and illustrations in Kharkiv for the newspaper Visti. In 1926 he joined the Odessa film studio as a director. Condemned by Stalin in 1944 for a story about the war, he was unable to shoot again until 1949. A professor at the film institute in Moscow, he died in Peredelkino on 25 November 1956, on the eve of shooting a film.

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