Oleksandr Dovženko - Berlin, Germany
N 52° 30.655 E 013° 17.909
33U E 384528 N 5819227
This memorial relief of Oleksandr Dovzenko, a Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director of Ukrainian origin, is located in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg, Germany.
Waymark Code: WMM6ZH
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date Posted: 08/02/2014
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ABOUT THE MEMORIAL:
The memorial relief is located at Bismarck Straße 69 in 10627 Charlottenburg where Oleksandr Dovženko resided from 1922-1923.
The following German text is included on the memorial: "In diesem Hause wohnte 1922-1923 der beruhmte ukrainische Filmregisseur und Schriftsteller Oleksandr Dovzenko."
[English translation courtesy of Google Translate:] In this house lived 1922-1923 the famous Ukrainian film director and writer Oleksandr Dovženko.
This text is also provided in Ukrainian on the memorial.
ABOUT THE MAN:
"Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko (September 10 [O.S. August 29] 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.
Dovzhenko turned to film in 1926 when he landed in Odessa. His ambitious drive led to the production of his second-ever screenplay, Vasya the Reformer (which he also co-directed). He gained greater success with Zvenyhora in 1928 which established him as a major filmmaker of his era. His following "Ukraine Trilogy" (Zvenigora, Arsenal, and Earth), although underappreciated by some contemporary Soviet critics (who found some of its realism counter-revolutionary), is his most well-known 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.
Dovzhenko served as a wartime journalist for the Red Army during World War II. After spending several years writing, co-writing and producing films at Mosfilm Studios in Moscow, he turned to writing novels. Over a 20 year career, Dovzhenko personally directed only 7 films."
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