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27-594: [REDACTED] This article relies excessively on references to primary sources . Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources . Find sources:   "Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( July 2022 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Ukrainian film award [REDACTED] State Prize of Ukraine named after Oleksandr Dovzhenko The Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize of Ukraine

54-670: A film adaption of the novella, Taras Bulba , by Gogol and Poem About a Sea , neither of which was completed before Dovzhenko died of a heart attack on November 25, 1956, in his dacha in Peredelkino - though the latter was completed by his widow Yulia Solntseva . Over a 20-year career, Dovzhenko personally directed only seven films. Dovchenko was a mentor to the young Soviet Ukrainian filmmakers Larisa Shepitko and Sergei Parajanov . The Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv were named after him in his honour following his death. In 2016, after

81-404: A film for several years, gave a rambling speech that jumped from one esoteric topic to another. Dovzhenko joined in the criticism, raising a laugh pleading: "Sergei Mikhailovich, if you do not produce a film at least within a year, then please do not produce one at all... All this talk about Polynesian females, I will gladly exchange all your unfinished scenarios for one of your films." At the end of

108-589: A nationalist conspiracy. Several of Dovzhenko's colleagues were shot or sent to labour camps during the Great Purge , in 1937–38, including his favourite cameraman, Danylo Demutsky, who worked with him on Earth . But when, at last, he had completed Shchors , which was released in January 1939, he was paid a huge fee - 100,000 rubles - and awarded the Stalin Prize (1941). During the war, Dovzhenko wrote an article and

135-501: A screenplay Ukraine in Flames , which was denounced for its alleged 'veiled nationalistic moods'. There are two versions of who was behind the denunciation. Nikita Khrushchev , who was head of the Ukrainian communist party at the time, paid tribute to Dovzhenko in his memoirs as a "brilliant director", and described the denunciation of Ukraine in Flames as a "disgraceful affair" initiated by

162-580: A suggestion from Stalin. In the three years before its release, Dovchenko had to submit every decision and every episode to a seemingly endless series of people 'who knew what Stalin wanted'. There were nightmare interview, some bitter, with the Leader himself, who was beginning to show signs of megalomania and infallibility...Dovzhenko later told friends about one frightening arrival in Stalin's office, when he refused to speak to Dovchenko, and Beria accused him of joining

189-1242: Is a state award of Ukraine established to honor an outstanding contribution to the development of Ukrainian cinema. The award was established on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding figure of Ukrainian culture Oleksandr Dovzhenko . Laureates [ edit ] Bohdan Beniuk Oleg Borisov Boryslav Brondukov Volodymyr Huba Mykhailo Illienko Yuri Ilyenko Sergei Loznitsa Kira Muratova Serhiy Mykhalchuk Leonid Osyka Ruslana Pysanka Ada Rogovtseva Oles Sanin Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi Konstantin Stepankov Bohdan Stupka Valentyn Vasyanovych Natalya Vorozhbyt Alla Zahaikevych Viacheslav Kryshtofovych Viktor Ivanov See also [ edit ] List of Ukrainian State Prizes References [ edit ] ^ "Про внесення зміни до статті 11 Закону України "Про державні нагороди України" " . rada.gov.ua . Верховна Рада України . Retrieved March 10, 2022 . ^ "On

216-655: The Chernihiv Governorate of the Russian Empire (now part of Sosnytsia in Chernihiv Oblast , Ukraine ), to Petro Semenovych Dovzhenko and Odarka Yermolayivna Dovzhenko. His paternal ancestors were Chumaks who settled in Sosnytsia in the eighteenth century, coming from the neighbouring province of Poltava . Oleksandr was the seventh of fourteen children born to the couple, but due to the deaths of his siblings he

243-525: The NKVD Vsevolod Merkulov to the party secretary in charge of culture, Andrei Zhdanov , said that Dovzhenko greatly resented the behaviour of Khrushchev, and leaders of the Ukrainian writers' union, who had praised the scenario on first reading, but then denounced on orders from above. Dovzhenko was quoted as saying "I don't hold anything against Stalin. I hold something against .. people who throw malicious slogans at me after all their admiration of

270-561: The Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize was named after him for his great contributions in the film sphere. Sosnitsky Uyezd Sosnitsky Uyezd ( Russian : Сосницкий уезд ; Ukrainian : Сосницький повіт , romanized :  Sosnytskyi povit ) was one of the subdivisions of the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire . It was situated in the central part of the governorate. Its administrative centre

297-692: The Ambassador in Warsaw as well as Berlin . Upon his return to USSR in 1923, he began illustrating books and drawing cartoons in Kharkiv . At that time, Dovzhenko was also a member of VAPLITE . 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 Zvenigora in 1928,

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324-547: The Oleksandr Dovzhenko State Prize Hidden categories: CS1 Ukrainian-language sources (uk) Articles lacking reliable references from July 2022 All articles lacking reliable references Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Alexander Dovzhenko Oleksandr Dovzhenko was born in the hamlet of Viunyshche located in the Sosnitsky Uyezd of

351-744: The State Awards of Ukraine" . zakon.rada.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - Legislation of Ukraine . Retrieved March 10, 2022 . ^ "Про Державну премію України імені Олександра Довженка" . rada.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine . Retrieved March 10, 2022 . [REDACTED] Ukraine portal [REDACTED] Film portal Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oleksandr_Dovzhenko_State_Prize&oldid=1213146623 " Categories : Ukrainian film awards Awards established in 1994 State Prizes of Ukraine Laureates of

378-698: The Ukraine government had announced a programme of 'decommunisation' of place names, Karl Liebknecht Street in Melitopol , in East Ukraine, was renamed Oleksandr Dovzhenko Street. On 30 January 2023, after Melitopol had been occupied by the Russian army during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , Melitopol's Russian-installed Mayor, Galina Danilchenko announced that the street would be given back its previous name. * codirected by Yuliya Solntseva A film award called

405-678: The army of the Ukrainian People's Republic . In 1919 in Zhytomyr he was taken prisoner and sent to the prison on suspicion of intelligence for the UPR army. At the end of 1919, he was released at the request of Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny . After his release, for some time he taught history and geography at the officers' school of the Red Army. In 1920 Dovzhenko joined the Borotbist party. He served as an assistant to

432-466: The boss of the Soviet film industry Boris Shumyatsky to be told that the script contained serious political errors. His request for another meeting with Stalin was ignored, so he wrote to the dictator on 26 November 1936, pleading: "This is my life, and if I am doing it wrong, then it is due to a shortage of talent or development, not malice. I bear your refusal to see me as a great sorrow." Stalin's response

459-506: The conference, Stalin presented Dovzhenko with the Order of Lenin. Later, Dovzhenko was summoned to the Kremlin again, and told by Stalin that he was a "free man", who was not under "any obligation" to make the film about Shchors. He took the hint, and paused work on Aerograd to follow Stalin's 'suggestion', and sent the dictator a draft of the screenplay for Schors. He was then summoned in front of

486-528: The greatest silent movies ever made. The British film director Karel Reisz was asked in 2002 by the British Film Institute to rank the greatest films ever made, and he put Earth second. The film portrayed collectivization in a positive light. Its plot revolved around a landowner's attempt to ruin a successful collective farm as it took delivery of its first tractor, though it opened with a long close-up of an elderly, dying man taking intense pleasure in

513-410: The head of the political administration of the Red Army, Aleksandr Shcherbakov , who "was obviously trying hard to fan Stalin's anger by harping on the charge that the film scenario was extremely nationalistic." Dovzhenko had read the scenario aloud to Khrushchev, but he claimed not to have paid much attention to it because he was focused on the war. But a police report sent at the time by the head of

540-494: The project but 'suggested' that Dovzhenko's next project, after Aerograd , should be dramatized biography of the born in Ukraine communist guerrilla fighter, Mykola Shchors . In January 1935, the Soviet film industry celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a major festival, during which the country's most renowned director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , who was in trouble with the authorities, and had not been allowed to complete

567-464: The screenplay - these people cannot guide the war and the people. This is trash." After being hauled in front of the Central Committee, Dovzhenko was excluded from various official organisations, cut himself off from fellow artists, wrote novels, and applied himself to writing a screenplay about the biologist, Michurin . The film Michurin earned him another Stalin prize, in 1949, although it

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594-614: The story of a young adventurer who becomes a bandit and counter-revolutionary and comes to a bad end, while his virtuous brother spends the film fighting for the revolution, which established him as a major filmmaker of his era. His following "Ukraine Trilogy" ( Zvenigora , Arsenal , and Earth ), are his most well-known works in the West. Arsenal was badly received by the communist authorities in Ukraine, who began harassing Dovzhenko - but, fortunately for him, Stalin watched it and liked it. Dovzhenko's Earth has been praised as one of

621-419: The taste of an apple - a scene with no obvious political message, but with some aspect of autobiography. The film was panned by the Soviet authorities. The poet, Demyan Bedny , attacked its "defeatism" over three columns of the newspaper Izvestia , and Dovzhenko was forced to re-edit it. Dovzhenko's next film, Ivan , portrayed a Dneprostroi construction worker and his reactions to industrialization, which

648-513: Was a brief note to Shumyatsky, in December, listing five things that were wrong with the script, including that "Shchors came out too crude and uncouth." Dovzhenko completed Aerograd in 1935. Before its release in November, Dovzhenko had begun work on Shchors . According to Jay Leyda, who was employed in the Soviet cinema industry at the time: Shchors taught him the new difficulties of executing

675-406: Was revised so many times, in order to get political approval, that according to one historian, "a large part of the final version was made without him." Khrushchev claimed that with his rise to power after the death of Stalin and the execution of the police chief Lavrentiy Beria , the persecution of Dovzhenko ended, and he was able to "live a useful active life" again. He embarked on two projects,

702-497: Was the oldest child by the time he turned eleven. Ultimately, only Oleksandr and his sister Polina, who later becomes a doctor, survived to adulthood. Although his parents were uneducated, Dovzhenko's semi-literate grandfather encouraged him to study, leading him to become a teacher at the age of 19. He avoided military service during World War I because of a heart condition, but during the Civil War he may have served for some time in

729-432: Was then summarily denounced for promoting fascism and pantheism . Fearing arrest, Dovzhenko personally appealed to Stalin. One day later, he was invited to the Kremlin, where he read the script of his next project, Aerograd , about the defence of a newly constructed city from Japanese infiltrators, to an audience of four of the most powerful men in the country - Stalin , Molotov , Kirov and Voroshilov . Stalin approved

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