From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko was a Ukrainian Soviet screenwriter film producer and director He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers alongside Sergei Eisenstein Dziga Vertov and Vsevolod Pudovkin as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory Although Oleksandr Dovzhenkos parents were uneducated his semiliterate grandfather encouraged him to study leading him to become a teacher at the age of 19 Dovzhenko turned to film in 1926 when he landed in Odesa His ambitious drive led to the production of his secondever screenplay Vasya the Reformer which he also codirected He gained greater success with Zvenyhora in 1928 which established him as a major filmmaker of his era His following Ukraine Trilogy Zvenyhora Arsenal and Earth although underappreciated by some contemporary Soviet critics who found some of its realism counterrevolutionary is his most wellknown work in the West For his film Shchors Dovzhenko was awarded the Stalin Prize 1941 eight years later in 1949 he was awarded another Stalin Prize for his film Michurin After spending several years writing cowriting and producing films at Mosfilm Studios in Moscow he turned to writing novels Over a 20year career Dovzhenko personally directed only 7 films He was a mentor to the young Ukrainian Soviet filmmakers Larysa Shepitko and Sergei Parajanov Dovzhenko died of a heart attack on November 25 1956 in his dacha in Peredelkino His wife Yulia Solntseva continued his legacy by producing films of her own and completing projects Dovzhenko was not able to create The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv were named after him in his honour following his death
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