Mark Donskoy

Mark Donskoy
Mark Donskoy (in the center) with cinematographers from East Germany, 1963
Born	Mark Semyonovich Donskoy 6 March 1901 Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	21 March 1981 (aged 80) Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1926–1981

Mark Semyonovich Donskoy (Russian: Марк Семёнович Донско́й; 6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1901 – 21 March 1981) was a Soviet film director. His most famous work (Stalin Prize in 1941) was the Gorky Trilogy, consisting of The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities.

Selected filmography

• The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
• Rainbow (1944)
• The Unvanquished (1945)
• Mother (1955)
• A Mother's Heart (1965)

Honours and awards

• Stalin Prizes:
  • 2nd class (1941) – for The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938) and People (1939)
  • 1st class (1946) – for Rainbow (1943)
  • 1st class (1948) – for Village Teacher (1947)
• USSR State Prize (1968) – for Heart Mother (1966)
• People's Artist of USSR (1966)
• Hero of Socialist Labour (1971)
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution (18 March 1981)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Highest Award of the American Film Critics Association 1944 – for Rainbow
• Award of Daily News – for best foreign film shown in the U.S. in 1944 (Rainbow)
• Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1946 – for The Unvanquished
• Special prize of the Italian journalists Venice IFF 1948 – for My Universities
• Award for Best Director Film Festival in Paris 1949 – for The Country Teacher
• First Prize in Stockholm International Film Festival 1949 – for My Universities
• Prize R. Unningtona Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1955 – for The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The People and My Universities
• Prize for best director at the Locarno International Film Festival 1960 – for Foma Gordeev
• Special Diploma in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1970 – for Rainbow

External links

• Mark Donskoy at the Internet Movie Database