2. Sosnica village lies in Chernihiv
region among the wonderful nature
of Polissya. At its outskirts called
Vyunysche at September 11, 1894
in a poor family was born boy
Alexander.
Sasha's childhood passed in his
native village, off the coast of
"enchanted river" - beautiful Desna.
3. Familly
Dovzhenko wrote in his "Autobiography": "My parents were
illiterate ... Had a lot of kids - fourteen, but remaining only two:
I and my sister ... The rest of them died"
With reverence and admiration Sasha recalled his father! "I
saw a lot of good people, but none like father did not see ...".
Sasha's mother, Odarka Yermolayivna, tought passionate
love for his native land, and to working people.
4. Education
Sasha had great ability to learn. Firstly he studied
in Sosnytsya elementary school and then in higher
primary school.
After he was twenty when completed five years of
study at the institute in August 1914 and then he
received became the teacher at higher elementary
school in Zhitomir.
5. Social and political activities
Since 1920, he was in the ranks of the Bolshevik Party.
He lived in Zhytomyr, where worked as a secretary of local
education department, Commissioner Shevchenko Theater.
In the summer of 1923 Dovzhenko worked in Kharkiv in
Kharkiv newspaper editors as an artist-illustrator.
Artist Dovzhenko worked for the Ukrainian organization
UPFC (Ukrainian photo-film control), for the order which he
made posters, portraits, and cartoons signed "Sasha"
6. Director
Dovzhenko was a creative
person. He was prominent in the
two arts - cinema and literature.
In June 1926 he became a
movie director. He made his first
attempts in the genre of light
comedy. They were comic
“Vasya-reformer”, and “Berry
love”.
7. Years of War
The war broked
Dovzhenko’s creative plans.
For heroes, defenders of the
homeland, he devoted many
works. One of these works
was film story "Ukraine in the
fire“
8. In 1948 he created color
film "Michurin." It was the last
his work as a film director.
In 1950 Dovzhenko
refered to an unforgettable
childhood, the "untouched
beauty" Desna. He writes the
most beautiful his work - a
film story "Enchanted
Desna".
9. The last years of his life
Dovzhenko worked as novelist
and playwright.
He had not seen his
cinematic works: "Poems of the
Sea“, and "Enchanted Desna".
Alexander Dovzhenko died in
the prime of his creative powers
at November 25, 1956.
11. The best poems
"Diary" (1941)
"Ukraine in the fire" (1943)
"The Story of fiery Years" (1944-1945)
"Enchanted Desna" (1954-1955)
"Poem of the Sea" (1955-1956)
