Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (died 1956)

Alexander Dovzhenko

Soviet-Ukrainian filmmaker (1894–1956)

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, 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…