My Apprenticeship : Prix Staline, degré II pour Mark Donskoï, 1941
Prix R. Unnington à Mark Donskoï au Festival d'Edinbourg, 1955
My Universities : Prix spécial des journalistes italiens au Festival de Venise, 1948
Premier prix du Festival de Stokholm, 1949
Prix au Festival de Edembourg, 1955
Foma Gordeev : Prix de la meilleure mise en scène au Festival de Locarno, 1960
Biography
Mark Donskoy was born on March 6, 1901 in Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire as Mark Semyonovich Donskoy. He was a director and writer, known for L'enfance de Maxime Gorki (1938), Nepokoryonnye (1945) and Thomas Gordeiev (1959). He died on March 21, 1981 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972
Served with the Soviet Red Army during the post-revolution civil war in Russia. Subsequently studied law and medicine and became a police prosecutor in the Ukraine.
In 1926, enrolled at the State Film Institute as a pupil under Eisenstein. Directed films from 1927, most celebrated of which were his 'Maxim Gorky' trilogy.
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