Grigori Aleksandrov

Born: 1903-01-22

Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (original family name was Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 - 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. They rival Ivan Pyryev's films as the most effective and light-hearted showcase ever designed for Stalin-era USSR. Description above from the Wikipedia article Grigori Aleksandrov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Battleship Potemkin

as Chief Officer Giliarovsky
Released: 1925-12-24

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration,...

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Strike

as Factory Foreman
Released: 1925-04-28

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

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Que Viva Mexico!

as Self
Released: 1979-10-01

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico...

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Glumov's Diary

as Glumov 2, Golutvin
Released: 1923-05-21

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian...

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Sergei Eisenstein

as Himself (archive footage)
Released: 1958-01-01

Documentary made for the 60th anniversary of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.

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Starling and Lyre

as General (uncredited)
Released: 1974-06-16

Soviet intelligence spouses — Lyudmila ("Lyre") and Fyodor ("Starling") Grekov at the beginning...

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Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

as Himself
Released: 1998-02-12

Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have...

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