Alexander Dovzhenko
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Alexander Dovzhenko was a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and writer born in 1894 in Ukraine. [1] He came from a poor family with 14 children, but only he and his sister survived. [2] Dovzhenko had a passion for his native Ukraine and its people that was instilled by his mother. [3] He had a successful career making influential Soviet films in the 1920s-1940s such as Earth, Ivan, Arsenal, and Shchors, before turning to writing in his later years.
Alexander Dovzhenko
- 1. Alexander Dovzhenko Life in creative period Made by: Dmytro Zinchuk
- 2. Sosnica village lies in Chernihiv region among the wonderful nature of Polissya. At its outskirts called Vyunysche at September 11, 1894 in a poor family was born boy Alexander. Sasha's childhood passed in his native village, off the coast of "enchanted river" - beautiful Desna.
- 3. Familly Dovzhenko wrote in his "Autobiography": "My parents were illiterate ... Had a lot of kids - fourteen, but remaining only two: I and my sister ... The rest of them died" With reverence and admiration Sasha recalled his father! "I saw a lot of good people, but none like father did not see ...". Sasha's mother, Odarka Yermolayivna, tought passionate love for his native land, and to working people.
- 4. Education Sasha had great ability to learn. Firstly he studied in Sosnytsya elementary school and then in higher primary school. After he was twenty when completed five years of study at the institute in August 1914 and then he received became the teacher at higher elementary school in Zhitomir.
- 5. Social and political activities Since 1920, he was in the ranks of the Bolshevik Party. He lived in Zhytomyr, where worked as a secretary of local education department, Commissioner Shevchenko Theater. In the summer of 1923 Dovzhenko worked in Kharkiv in Kharkiv newspaper editors as an artist-illustrator. Artist Dovzhenko worked for the Ukrainian organization UPFC (Ukrainian photo-film control), for the order which he made posters, portraits, and cartoons signed "Sasha"
- 6. Director Dovzhenko was a creative person. He was prominent in the two arts - cinema and literature. In June 1926 he became a movie director. He made his first attempts in the genre of light comedy. They were comic “Vasya-reformer”, and “Berry love”.
- 7. Years of War The war broked Dovzhenko’s creative plans. For heroes, defenders of the homeland, he devoted many works. One of these works was film story "Ukraine in the fire“
- 8. In 1948 he created color film "Michurin." It was the last his work as a film director. In 1950 Dovzhenko refered to an unforgettable childhood, the "untouched beauty" Desna. He writes the most beautiful his work - a film story "Enchanted Desna".
- 9. The last years of his life Dovzhenko worked as novelist and playwright. He had not seen his cinematic works: "Poems of the Sea“, and "Enchanted Desna". Alexander Dovzhenko died in the prime of his creative powers at November 25, 1956.
- 10. Top movies • "Vasya-reformer" (1926) •"Aerohrad" (1935) • "Berry-Love" (1926) • "Shchors" (1939) • "Zvenyhora" (1928) • "Liberation" (1940) • "Arsenal" (1929) • "Taras Bulba" (1941) • "Earth" (1930) • "Michurin" (1946) • "Ivan" (1930) • "Antarctica" (1952)
- 11. The best poems "Diary" (1941) "Ukraine in the fire" (1943) "The Story of fiery Years" (1944-1945) "Enchanted Desna" (1954-1955) "Poem of the Sea" (1955-1956)
- 12. Thank you for attention!