Direction: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 16
Earth (Zemlya)
1930 · Movie · 75 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Stepan Shkurat · Semyon Svashenko · Yuliya Solntseva · Yelena Maksimova
Plot Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex, and...
7.5
947 votes
7.5
947 votes
Ivan
1932 · Movie · 102 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast K. Bondarevsky · Dmitri Golubinsky · Elena Golki · Maksim Gornatko
7.1
45 votes
7.1
45 votes
Arsenal
1929 · Movie · 75 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Semyon Svashenko · Amvrosi Buchma · Georgi Khorkov · Aleksandr Evdakov
Plot The Great War (World War I) has brought devastation, heartache, and hardship to the Ukrainian people. Their soldiers, likewise, have faced horrors from the enemy and threats from their own...
7.0
424 votes
7.0
424 votes
Shchors
1939 · Movie · 92 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Yuliya Solntseva
Cast Yevgeni Samojlov · Ivan Skuratov · Fyodor Ishchenko · Valentin Dukler
6.9
25 votes
6.9
25 votes
Zvenigora
1928 · Movie · 92 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Georgi Astafyev · Nikolai Nademsky · Vladimir Uralsky · Les Podorozhnij
Plot A silent revolutionary epic and a remarkable avant-garde film, Zvenigora - Dovzhenko's initial film in his 'Ukraine Trilogy' (along with Arsenal and Earth) - is almost religious in its tone,...
6.6
137 votes
6.6
137 votes
The Diplomatic Pouch
1927 · Movie · 50 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Mattea Buyukli · Anton Klymenko · Ida Penzo · Boris Zagorsky
Plot Based on truth murder of the soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, "The Diplomatic Pouch" is a spyfilm that tells the difficulties to return the pouch to Leningrad before the british secret...
5.9
31 votes
5.9
31 votes
Air City
1935 · Movie · 82 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Stepan Shagaida · Sergei Stolyarov · Yevgeniya Melnikova · Stepan Shkurat
5.7
62 votes
5.7
62 votes
Love's Berries (S)
1926 · Movie · 25 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Maryan Krushchelnitsky · Margarita Barskaya · Dmitri Kapka · Ivan Zamychkovsky
Plot Dovzhenko's debut film, it deals with a dandified barber's attempts to get rid of his "love berry" - his illegitimate offspring. Comedy misadventures of a father trying to dispose of...
5.7
38 votes
5.7
38 votes
Vasya reformator
1926 · Movie · 49 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Faust Lopatinsky
Cast Vasili Lyudvinsky · Yuri Chernyshov · Yuri Shumsky · Natalya Chernysheva
Plot Vasya has been left to himself since childhood and is used to independence. In one day, Vasya manages to get a man out of the water, ride a strange car,...
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Native Land
1945 · Documentary · 58 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Gurgen Balasanyan · Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Levon Isahakyan · G. Zargaryan
Cast Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Plot A documentary dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, supervised by the Soviet Ukrainian filmmaker Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
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Michurin
1949 · Movie · 81 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Grigori Belov · Sergei Bondarchuk · Fyodor Grigoryev · Vladimir Isayev
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Victory in the Ukraine and the Expulsion of the Germans from the Boundaries of the Ukrainian Soviet Earth
1945 · Documentary · 73 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Yuliya Solntseva
Plot Dovzhenko and Solntseva’s documentary about the end of the war.
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Bukovina, a Ukrainian Land
1939 · Documentary · 30 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Yuliya Solntseva
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Ukraine in Flames
1943 · Documentary · 80 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Yuliya Solntseva
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Proshchay, Amerika!
1949 · Movie · 70 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Cast Liliya Gritsenko · Nikolai Gritsenko · Janis Osis · Grigori Kirillov
Plot An unfinished film by Aleksandr Dovzhenko, the film is a political lampoon based on the book entitled The Truth about US Diplomats, written in 1949 by the American writer Annabel...
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Liberation
1940 · Documentary · 62 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Dovzhenko · Yuliya Solntseva
Cast Olev Eskola
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