Biography
Mark Semyonovich Donskoy (Russian: Марк Семёнович Донско́й; 6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1901 – 21 March 1981) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and studio administrative head. Mark Donskoy was born in Odessa in a Jewish family. During the Civil War, he served in the Red Army (1921-1923), and was held captive by the White Russians for ten months. Freed and discharged from military service, he studied psychology and psychiatry at the Crimean Medical School. In 1925 he graduated from the legal department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Crimean M.V. Frunze University in Simferopol. He then worked in investigative bodies, in the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR, and in the bar association. He released a collection of short stories about his life called "Prisoners" (1925).Donskoy began his career in film in 1926. He worked in the script department, then as an assistant director in Moscow, later as an editing assistant in Leningrad. In 1935 he became the first Soviet dubbing director; he dubbed the American film "The Invisible Man". In addition to subsequently directing numerous films, he also worked from time to time as a studio administrator: in 1938–1941, and in 1945-1955 he was the administrative director of Soyuzdetfilm's film studio in Moscow; in 1942-1945 and in 1955-1957 he was director of the Kiev film studio; after 1957, he was director and art director of the Maxim Gorky film studio where he mentored Ousmane Sembène.His wife was the screenwriter Irina Borisovna Donskaya (1918-1983).
Filmography
all 21
Movies 21
Director 19
The Orlovs (1978)
Nadezhda (1973)
Верность матери (1967)
A Mother's Heart (1966)
Hello, Children! (1962)
Foma Gordeyev (1959)
The Horse That Cried (1957)
Mother (1956)
Alitet Leaves for the Hills (1950)
The Village Teacher (1947)
The Taras Family (1945)
Rainbow (1943)
How the Steel Was Tempered (1942)
The Romantics (1941)
My Universities (1940)
My Apprenticeship (1939)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
Song of Happiness (1934)
His Excellency (1928)
In the Big City (1927)
Prostitute (1927)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1901-03-19
Deathday1981-03-21 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceOdesa, Ukraine
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsМарк Донской
AwardsHonored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Stalin Prize, Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", USSR State Prize, Order of the October Revolution, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the RSFSR
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