Biography
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович А́лов) (September 26, 1923 – June 12, 1983) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 (together with Vladimir Naumov). His 1981 film Teheran 43 won the Golden Prize at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.After military service in the Great Patriotic War, Alov studied with Igor Savchenko at VGIK, graduating in 1951. He worked as an assistant to Savchenko on the
war epic The Third Blow (1948). After his teacher’s untimely death, he and fellow student Vladimir Naumov were entrusted with the completion of Savchenko’s last picture, the biopic Taras Shevchenko (1949). Following the success of that debut, Alov and Naumov began to make films at the Kiev film studio as a team under the label “Alov and Naumov”.
Restless Youth (1954), their first film, is about Ukrainian Komsomol members who successfully defeat an incompetent administrator. Pavel Korchagin (1956), adapted from Nikolai Ostrovsky’s novel How the Steel Was Tempered (1932), is about a soldier who is injured in the Russian Civil War. The third installment of this loose trilogy about Soviet youth, The Wind (1958), was made after Alov and Naumov’s 1957 move to Mosfilm Studio. It tells the story of four friends’ sojourn to the first Komsomol Congress in Moscow.
The film which would end up being the most popular work by Alov and Naumov was The Flight (1970), adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s tragedy about the 1918–1921 Civil War and subsequent mass emigration.
Filmography
all 15
Movies 15
Director 11
Writer 3
The law (1990)
One Day of Mosfilm (1985)
The Shore (1984)
The Adventures of Count Nevzorov (1983)
Teheran '43 (1981)
The Legend of Till (1977)
How the Steel Was Tempered (1973)
The Flight (1971)
The Ugly Story (1966)
The Coin (1962)
Peace to Him Who Enters (1961)
The Wind (1959)
Pavel Korchagin (1956)
Restless Youth (1955)
Taras Shevchenko (1951)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1923-09-26
Deathday1983-06-12 (59 years old)
Birth NameАлександр Александрович Лапскер
Birth PlaceKharkiv, Ukraine
CitizenshipsSoviet Union
Also Known AsАлександр Алов, Олександр Алов, Алов Олександр Олександрович, Алов Александр Александрович , A. Alov
AwardsHonored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal for Battle Merit, Medal "For Battle Merit", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", USSR State Prize, Order of the Red Star, Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Order of the Red Banner of Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", People's Artist of the RSFSR
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