alexander dovzhenko

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)

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