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Grigoriy Vasilevich Aleksandrov
Григорий Александров
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23 January 1903 - 16 December 1983
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Grigory Vasilyevich Alexandrov (real name – Grigory Mormonenko) was born in Yekaterinburg, USSR, on January 23, 1903. The father of the future actor and film director worked as a mining worker in the Urals. From childhood, the boy had to work part-time, first - as a messenger in the opera house, then as an assistant prop and electrical engineer. In 1917, Gregory graduated from the music school of Yekaterinburg in the violin class and entered the directorial courses at the Workers’ and Peasants’
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Grigory Vasilyevich Alexandrov (real name – Grigory Mormonenko) was born in Yekaterinburg, USSR, on January 23, 1903. The father of the future actor and film director worked as a mining worker in the Urals. From childhood, the boy had to work part-time, first - as a messenger in the opera house, then as an assistant prop and electrical engineer.
In 1917, Gregory graduated from the music school of Yekaterinburg in the violin class and entered the directorial courses at the Workers’ and Peasants’ Theatre, where the young man was immediately appointed an instructor of the arts department. His duties included controlling the repertoire of all cinemas in the city, in parallel he was engaged in the reworking and editing of old films.
In 1921, Grigory Alexandrov began to work as an actor of the Moscow Workers' Theater Proletkult, where he met Sergei Eisenstein. After that, they created performances and worked on films together.
Since 1927 he began to act as a co-author of the script and production of the revolutionary film “October”, and then – the tape.
"Old and new" .
From 1929 to 1932 he worked in the United States, after which he began shooting films.
"Long live Mexico!" .
In 1932 he returned to the Soviet Union and, on Stalin’s orders, shot the painting “The International”.
In 1934, he worked on the film “Merry Guys” together with his wife L. Orlova and L. Utesov, but critics met this work with bayonets, as a result, the picture was banned. However, Maxim Gorky intervened in the conflict and won Stalin’s approval. The film was a huge success with the public.
Then came films like "Circus."
Volga-Volga "Bright Path", "Spring" and "Meeting on the Elbe". In his musical paintings, Alexandrov attracted the attention of the audience with inexhaustible energy, good humor and freshness of musical decisions.
The talented director died in 1983 from a kidney infection in the Kremlin hospital.