Alexander Grigory Biography

The tombstone of Aleksandrov is a real name - Mormonenko Grigory Vasilievich - an outstanding Soviet film director, screenwriter and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR, professor. Born 10th 23th year in the city of Yekaterinburg. In the year he graduated from the Yekaterinburg music school in the violin class.

He worked as an assistant costume, a decorator, an electrical engineer at the Yekaterinburg Opera Theater. In the year he graduated from the directors of the worker-peasant theater. In the years, the actor of the first wrapping theater of the Proletcult in Moscow. Then he began to work in a creative community with S. Eisenstein - at first as an actor in his theatrical productions, the role of Glumov in the play “Sage” based on A.

Ostrovsky’s play “On any sage is quite simplicity”, then as an actor and assistant director in the film “Stack”, the actor and loser in the film “Armorine Potemkin” with Aleksandrov. With enthusiasm, he perceived the theoretical searches and practical innovations of S. Eisenstein in the field of installation and acting in the cinema, along with him and V.

Pudovkin acted as one of the authors of the creative manifesto of the “future sound film” together with S. Eisenstein wrote scripts and set the films “October” and “Old and New”, went with him on a creative business trip to the USA and Mexico, where he worked on the picture “Long live Mexico! In years, Alexandrov turned to the genre of musical comedy. With great success, he debuted the film “Funny Guys”, the Cup of the International Film Festival in Venice, organically uniting a comic eccentric in the artistic space of the film, the lyrical plot line and music I.

The picture was significant in the USSR, but also abroad called “Moscow laughs”, was awarded sincere compliments by Charlie Chaplin. The next film of Aleksandrov - “Circus” also enjoyed no less noisy success and universal popularity in the USSR; The highest prize at the International Exhibition in Paris, where both in the plot and in the drawing of the main roles of L.

Orlov, S. Stolyarov, and in the music of I. Dunaevsky, the motives of the socio-patriotic melodrama came to the fore, and comic gags and reprises only intonated all the action in cheerful and optimistic vein. However, here and in his subsequent comedies-Volga-Volga, Spring, the International Award of the Film Festival in Venice, the director skillfully and inventively combined the element of political propaganda with pure entertainment, introduced colorful satirical characters, so that the viewer did not have a feeling of ideological pressure.

Later, working in the genre of the political pamphlet “Meeting on the Elbe”, and the biographical film “Composer Glinka”, Alexandrov made concessions of the political situation. At the end of the x, he tried to return to formal experiments in the genre of musical roar “man”,; The “Russian souvenir”, at the end of his creative biography, set a picture of the Soviet intelligence officers “Square and Lira”, which, however, was unanimously regarded as a complete failure and did not work.

In the years, the artistic director of the director's course at VGIK. In the history of domestic cinema, Aleksandrov remained an unsurpassed master of the musical comedy of the “big” style, which managed to reduce patho and eccentric into a single channel. He lived and worked in the city of Gero Moscow. He died on December 16. The plot 3 was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

He was awarded with three orders of Lenin 1. The laureate of the Stalin Prize, the author of the book of memoirs “Epoch and Kino”, was the second marriage of Alexandrov.