Aleksandr Ivanovsky

Soviet film director and screenwriter

Aleksandr Viktorovich Ivanovsky (Russian: Александр Викторович Ивановский; November 29, 1881 – January 12, 1968) was a screenwriter and film director in Soviet Union.^[1] He was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, for his work on the 1940 film Musical Story. His 1944 operetta film Silva was one of the most popular releases in the Soviet Union that year.^[2]

Selected filmography

• Comedienne (1923)
• The Palace and the Fortress (1924)
• The Decembrists (1927)
• House of Greed (1933)
• Dubrovsky (1936)
• Musical Story (1940)
• Spring Song (1941)
• Anton Ivanovich Is Angry (1941)
• Silva (1944)
• Russian Ballerina (1947)
• Tamer of Tigers (1955)

References

1. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 303–305. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
2. Spring & Taylor p.50

Bibliography

• Spring, Derek & Taylor, Richard. Stalinism and Soviet Cinema. Routledge, 2013.

External links

• Aleksandr Ivanovsky at IMDb