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Grigori Aleksandrov (1903–1983)

Director | Writer | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Grigori Aleksandrov was a Soviet-Russian filmmaker best known as director of Volga - Volga, Tsirk, and October (Ten Days that Shook the World), as well as co-star in Battleship Potemkin by director Sergei M. Eisenstein. He was born Grigori Vasilyevich Mormonenko on January 23, 1903 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. His father, Vasili Mormonenko... See full bio »

Born:

Grigori Vasilyevich Marmonenko
in Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died:

(age 80) in Moscow, USSR [now Russia]
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1985 Lyubov Orlova (documentary)
 
1974 Skvorets i Lira
 
1965 Lenin v Shveytsarii (TV movie)
 
1965 Pered oktyabryom
 
1960 Russkiy suvenir
 
1958 Chelovek cheloveku
 
1953 Man of Music
 
1949 Vstrecha na Elbe
 
1947 Spring
 
1944 Men of the Caspian
 
1943 A Family
 
1941 Tanya (as G.V. Aleksandrov)
 
1940 Time in the Sun (documentary)
 
1938 Volga - Volga
 
1938 Fizkulturnyy parad
 
1938 Pervoye maya
 
1937 Doklad tov. Stalina o proekte Konstitutsii SSSR na VIII Chrezvychaynom S'yezde Sovetov
 
1936 Tsirk
 
1934 Moscow Laughs (as G. V. Aleksandrov)
 
1932 Internationale (short)
 
1932 ¡Que viva Mexico!
 
1930 Sentimental Romance (short) (as G. V. Alexandroff)
 
1929 Old and New
 
1928 October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (co-director)
 
Show ShowWriter (18 titles)
1985 Lyubov Orlova (documentary)
 
1979 Que Viva Mexico (documentary) (additional material)
 
1967 Ten Days That Shook the World (TV documentary) (script / as Grigori Alexandrov)
 
1965 Lenin v Shveytsarii (TV movie) (screenplay)
 
1960 Russkiy suvenir (screenplay)
 
1953 Man of Music (writer)
 
1947 Spring
 
1936 Tsirk
 
1934 Moscow Laughs (as G. V. Aleksandrov)
 
1933 Thunder Over Mexico (scenario)
 
1932 ¡Que viva Mexico!
 
1931 La destrucción de Oaxaca (documentary short)
 
1930 Sentimental Romance (short)
 
1930 Women's Misery - Women's Happiness (short)
 
1929 Old and New (writer)
 
1928 Devushka s dalyokoy reki (writer)
 
1928 October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (written by)
 
1925 Strike
 
1998 Sergei Eisenstein. Meksikanskaya fantasiya (documentary) (assistant director)
 
1930 Women's Misery - Women's Happiness (short) (assistant director)
 
1925 Battleship Potemkin (assistant director - as T. Aleksandrov)
 
1925 Strike (assistant director)
 
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1979 Que Viva Mexico (documentary)
 
1930 Sentimental Romance (short)
 
1925 Battleship Potemkin (re-issue - uncredited)
 
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1925 Battleship Potemkin
Chief Officer Giliarovsky
 
1925 Strike
Factory Foreman
 
1923 Dnevnik Glumova (short)
Glumov 2, Golutvin
 
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1945 Six P.M. (artistic producer)
 
1945 Twins (artistic producer)
 
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1967 Ten Days That Shook the World (TV documentary) (producer - as Grigori Alexandrov)
 
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1940 Osvobozhdeniye
 
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1998 Sergei Eisenstein. Meksikanskaya fantasiya (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1979 Que Viva Mexico (documentary)
Himself
 
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1958 Sergei Eisenstein (documentary short)
Himself
 
1943 Seeds of Freedom
('Potemkin' sequence)
 

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Battleship Potemkin -- A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. Old and New -- Kazuki takes in a bird's eye view of the outside world for the first time. His refuge from the island quickly takes a turn for the worse when a Festum approaches followed by two foreign mechs - neither party showing peaceful intentions. Que Viva Mexico -- Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
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Alternate Names:

G. V. Aleksandrov | G.V. Aleksandrov | T. Aleksandrov | G. V. Alexandroff | Gregory Alexandrov | Grigori Alexandrov
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After their marriage, Lyubov Orlova adopted his son Duglas Aleksandrov. See more »

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