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Entries / Ivanov А.G. (1898-1984), film director

Ivanov А.G. (1898-1984), film director


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IVANOV Alexander Gavrilovich (1898-1984, Leningrad), film director and script writer; People’s Artist of the USSR in 1964, Honoured Worker of Arts of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1947. He completed cinema courses at Kino-Sever Film Studio in 1925 and started working at Lenfilm Studio in the same year. He completed postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Branch of the Academy of Art Studies in 1935. He directed 17 films. Developed the genre of war in 1930-50, he produced On the Border, T-9 Submarine, and Sons. Among his major films were Star of 1953 and Soldiers of 1957, the latter awarded a prize at the First All-Union Film Festival in Moscow in 1958. He produced a three-part screen version of M. A. Sholokhov’s Virgin Soil Upturned. He was the director at the Second Creative Association of Lenfilm in 1967. He wrote a book, Half a Century in Cinema, published in Leningrad in 1973. Buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

Reference: Муратов Л. Г. Александр Иванов. Л., 1968.

I. V. Sepman.

Persons
Ivanov Alexander Gavrilovich
Sholokhov Mikhail Alexandrovich

Bibliographies
Муратов Л. Г. Александр Иванов. Л., 1968

The subject Index
Lenfilm, Film Studio
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery