alexander dovzhenko
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Alexander DovzhenkoLife in creative period
Made by:Dmytro Zinchuk
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.
FamillyDovzhenko 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.
EducationSasha 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.
Social and political activitiesSince 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"
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”.
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“
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".
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.
Top movies
• "Vasya-reformer" (1926)
• "Berry-Love" (1926)
• "Zvenyhora" (1928)
• "Arsenal" (1929)
• "Earth" (1930)
• "Ivan" (1930)
•"Aerohrad" (1935)
• "Shchors" (1939)
• "Liberation" (1940)
• "Taras Bulba" (1941)
• "Michurin" (1946)
• "Antarctica" (1952)
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)
Thank you for attention!