Battleship Potemkin
1925
Cast · Chief Officer Giliarovsky
Biography
22 JAN 1903 - 16 DEC 1983
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (original family name was Mormonenko) was a prominent Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950.
Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova.
Credits
3 films