Grigory Vasilyevich Alexandrov

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Alexandrov's tombstone with his relief in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow

Grig o ri Wass i ljewitsch Alex a ndrow ( Russian Григорий Васильевич Александров , scientific. Transliteration Grigory Vasil'evič Aleksandrov ; actually Grigory Vasilevich Mormonenko . (Russian Григорий Васильевич Мормоненко ); born January 10 . Jul / 23. January  1903 greg. In Yekaterinburg ; † December 16, 1983 in Moscow ) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter.

Life

Grigory Alexandrov grew up in the Ural city of Yekaterinburg. In 1917 he completed his violin training there at a music school. He later worked at the city's opera house and attended directing courses, which he completed in 1920. Alexandrov began his acting career in Moscow in 1921 , where he initially played in a “workers theater ” of the early Soviet proletarian movement. There he met the silent film director Eisenstein , who later became famous , and initially played several roles in his early theater productions. In 1925, Alexandrow made his debut as an assistant director and co-screenwriter in the Eisenstein drama Strik , in which he also had an actor role. Alexandrov's collaboration with Eisenstein, both as an actor and as a co-director, continued in the same year on the internationally successful silent film Battleship Potemkin . In 1927 and 1929, respectively, Alexandrow wrote the scripts for Eisenstein's films October and The Old and New . Another film production shot in collaboration with Eisenstein, Que viva Mexico! from 1932, remained unfinished at the time and was not completed by Alexandrow until 1979, long after Eisenstein's death.

In the early 1930s, Alexandrov went over to producing sound films in sole direction. Alexandrow also used his for the 1931/1932 filming of Que viva Mexico! practical knowledge acquired in the USA for film production in Hollywood . Alexandrow's debut film was the musical comedy Funny Boys, completed in 1934 . He wrote this film on behalf of Stalin , who had previously expressed to Alexandrov that a feature film of this genre would be produced for the first time in the Soviet Union . From then on, the comedy with prominent figures was so successful in the USSR as well as abroad that Alexandrov directed several musical films in the following years - including the equally successful productions Circus (1936) and Volga, Volga (1938). Alexandrov was considered loyal to the state power and tended to colorize the life of the common people in the USSR in a certain way in his films - especially in the 1940 produced film The Bright Way , which was also held in the genre of a musical comedy. However, among the productions of Alexandrov from the 1930s there were also clearly ideological propaganda films, including the documentaries Internationale (1932) and Der Erste Mai (1938).

In the post-war period, Alexandrov mainly produced historical documentaries and biography strips and taught directing at Moscow's Gerasimov Institute for Cinematography from 1951 to 1957 . Up until the 1970s he also made a few feature films, usually with a historical reference and always with strict adherence to the line - for example, Encounter on the Elbe (1949) about the relationship between the Soviet and American occupation forces in post-war Germany. However, Alexandrov was not able to build on the successes of the 1930s with any of these films and remained primarily in the public eye as a pioneer of the Soviet film musical.

Alexandrov was married to the actress Lyubov Orlova , who became famous for leading roles in his most successful musical films.

Filmography

  • 1925: Strike ( Стачка ) - directed by Sergei Eisenstein
  • 1925: Battleship Potemkin ( Броненосец "Потёмкин" ; co-director with Sergei Eisenstein )
  • 1927: October ( Октябрь ; co-director with Sergei Eisenstein)
  • 1929: The General Line ( Генеральная линия ; co-director with Sergei Eisenstein)
  • 1930: Le Romance sentimentale ( Сентиментальный романс ; co-director with Sergei Eisenstein)
  • 1932: Internationale ( Интернационал )
  • 1932: Que viva Mexico! ( Да здравствует Мексика! )
  • 1934: Funny guys ( Весёлые ребята )
  • 1936: Circus ( Цирк )
  • 1937: Lecture by Comrade Stalin on the draft Constitution of the USSR on the seventh day of the adjunct Soviets ( . Доклад тов Сталина о проекте Конституции СССР на VII Чрезвычайном Съезде Советов )
  • 1938: Volga, Volga ( Волга-Волга )
  • 1938: May Day ( Первое мая )
  • 1940: The bright way ( Светлый путь )
  • 1940: Under Mexico's sun ( Время на солнце )
  • 1943: A family ( Одна семья )
  • 1944: The Caspian People ( Каспийские люди )
  • 1947: Spring ( Весна )
  • 1949: Meeting on the Elbe ( Встреча на Эльбе )
  • 1952: The composer Glinka / Lied der Heimat ( Композитор Глинка )
  • 1958: From person to person ( Человек человеку )
  • 1960: The Russian souvenir ( Русский сувенир )
  • 1965: Before October ( Перед Октябрём )
  • 1965: Lenin in Switzerland ( Ленин в Швейцарии )
  • 1974: Starlings and lyre tails ( Скворец и Лира )
  • 1932/1979: Que viva Mexico! ( Да здравствует Мексика! )
  • 1983: Lyubow Orlowa ( Любовь Орлова )

Honorary degrees and awards

See also

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Commons : Grigori Aleksandrov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Alexandrow, Grigory Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aleksandrov, Grigorij Vasilʹevič (transliteration); Александров, Григорий Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekaterinburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1983
Place of death Moscow