Sergei Eisenstein. V.I. Pudovkin. Alexander Dovzhenko. Though these three filmmakers tend to get lumped together as the Terrible Trio of Soviet Silent Cinema, the truth is that the styles and goals of ...

Alexander Dovzhenko’s 1929 silent film “Arsenal” ((star)(star)(star)(star)), shown at 4:15 p.m. Saturday at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of its ...

Alexander Dovzhenko, a Ukrainian filmmaker, is best known today for a series of political pictures he wrote and directed in the early Stalin years, movies that kept drifting in directions that risked ...

American film director Martin Scorsese claimed Ukrainian Olexandr Dovzhenko to be one of the greatest directors in the history of cinematography while taking the stage at a charity concert dedicated ...

Ukrainians would prefer that Alexander Dovzhenko's first name be spelled with an "o": Olexander. And rather than say that Dovzhenko is the great filmmaker of the Ukraine, they'd rather you drop "the" ...

Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko 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 ...

Just because a film is a game-changing masterpiece doesn’t mean its legacy is uncomplicated. Think of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 white supremacist epic The Birth of a Nation, which both glorified the role ...

Early Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko was a committed optimist. Of his 13 brothers and sisters, 12 died in his youth. “Whenever I think of my childhood and of my home,” he recalled, “in my mind I ...

When I speak of poetry, I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality….Think of Mandelstam, think of Pasternak, Chaplin, Dovzhenko, ...

Before she was a filmmaker, Yuliya Solntseva was the Queen of Mars. As the title character in the 1924 silent film “Aelita,” she vamps and struts her way around elaborate constructivist sets ...