1. Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov was a Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973.
24 Facts About Grigori Aleksandrov
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Grigori Aleksandrov was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950.
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Grigori Aleksandrov pursued a musical education, studying violin at the Ekaterinburg Musical School, from which he graduated in 1917.
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Grigori Aleksandrov came to Moscow after studying directing and briefly managing a movie theater.
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In 1923, Grigori Aleksandrov was given the main role in Eisenstein's adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's 1868 comedy Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man and in Eisenstein's first film Glumov's Diary, a short film that was included in the play.
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Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov collaborated on several plays before Eisenstein made his first feature-length film, Strike, which Grigori Aleksandrov co-wrote with Eisenstein, Ilya Kravchunovsky, and Valeryan Pletnyov.
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Grigori Aleksandrov traveled with them to Mexico for the filming of Eisenstein's unrealized project about the country.
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Grigori Aleksandrov returned to the Soviet Union in 1932 under direct orders from Joseph Stalin.
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Grigori Aleksandrov directed a pro-Stalin film, International, the following year and after a meeting with Stalin and Maxim Gorky, he embarked on making the first Soviet musical, Jolly Fellows, starring Leonid Utyosov and Lyubov Orlova, whom Aleksandrov later married.
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Grigori Aleksandrov starred in his most successful films: Circus, Volga-Volga, and Tanya.
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In September 1943, Grigori Aleksandrov was ordered to return to Moscow as manager-in-chief of Mosfilm studio.
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Grigori Aleksandrov made a movie about the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, obviously pushed by his Moscow Conservatory nurtured wife.
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Grigori Aleksandrov taught directing at VGIK from 1951 to 1957, Leonid Gaidai was among his students.
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Grigori Aleksandrov made several films about the years leading up to the Russian Revolution, including several about Vladimir Lenin.
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Paradoxically, Grigori Aleksandrov found it harder to work in the more politically relaxed atmosphere called "Khrushchev Thaw" that followed Stalin's death.
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Grigori Aleksandrov was even punished for his success during the Stalin era.
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Izvestia has published a letter in support of Grigori Aleksandrov, signed by Pyotr Kapitsa, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergey Obraztsov, Yuri Zavadsky and Sergei Yutkevich.
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The attacks on Grigori Aleksandrov had stopped but after that, he basically stopped filming.
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Twelve years after his previous feature film, at the high of Brezhnevian stagnation, Grigori Aleksandrov was suddenly given enough money for a film about the Soviet spies during WWII.
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Grigori Aleksandrov died in December 1983 of a kidney infection and was buried on the same line as Orlova, but not next to her, in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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Grigori Aleksandrov's 10-year-long partnership with Sergei Eisenstein was a source of rumors about their romantic relationship.
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Grigori Aleksandrov died in labor, along with Tenin's child, just before the start of the Great Patriotic War.
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Grigori Aleksandrov was sure "Douglas went to buy a loaf of bread".
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Internationally, Grigori Aleksandrov is best known for his early work with Sergei Eisenstein.