Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович А́лов) (September 26, 1923 – June 12, 1983) was a Soviet

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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, he was granted the honorary title of

People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. Nomenclature and significan ...

in 1983 (together with Vladimir Naumov). His 1981 film '' Teheran 43'' won the Golden Prize at the

12th Moscow International Film Festival The 12th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1981. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Brazilian film ''O Homem que Virou Suco'' directed by João Batista de Andrade, the Vietnamese film '' The Abandoned Field: Free Fi ...

. After military service in the Great Patriotic War, Alov studied with

Igor Savchenko Igor Andreyevich Savchenko (russian: Игорь Андреевич Са́вченко) or Ihor Andriyovych Savchenko ( uk, І́гор Андрі́йович Са́вченко; 11 October 1906 – 14 December 1950) was a screenwriter and film di ...

at VGIK, graduating in 1951. He worked as an assistant to Savchenko on the war epic '' The Third Blow'' (1948). After his teacher’s untimely death, he and fellow student Vladimir Naumov were entrusted with the completion of Savchenko’s last picture, the biopic '' Taras Shevchenko'' (1949). Following the success of that debut, Alov and Naumov began to make films at the Kiev film studio as a team under the label “Alov and Naumov”. ''Restless Youth'' (1954), their first film, is about Ukrainian Komsomol members who successfully defeat an incompetent administrator. '' Pavel Korchagin'' (1956), adapted from Nikolai Ostrovsky’s novel How the Steel Was Tempered (1932), is about a soldier who is injured in the Russian Civil War. The third installment of this loose trilogy about Soviet youth, '' The Wind'' (1958), was made after Alov and Naumov’s 1957 move to Mosfilm Studio. It tells the story of four friends’ sojourn to the first Komsomol Congress in Moscow. The film which would end up being the most popular work by Alov and Naumov was '' The Flight'' (1970), adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s tragedy about the 1918–1921 Civil War and subsequent mass emigration.

Filmography

:''Note: all films are co-directed with Vladimir Naumov'' * '' Taras Shevchenko'' (1951) * ''Restless Youth'' (1954) * '' Pavel Korchagin (Павел Корчагин)'' (1957) * '' The Wind'' (1959) * '' Peace to Him Who Enters'' (1961) * ''The Coin'' (1965) * ''

The Ugly Story ''The Ugly Story'' (russian: Скверный анекдот, Skvernyy anekdot) is a 1966 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov. Plot The actual state adviser Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky had the idea that if he is humane, ...

'' (1966) * '' The Flight'' (1970) * ''Legend About Thiel'' (1976) * '' Teheran 43'' (1981) * '' The Shore'' (1984)

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* 1923 births 1983 deaths Film people from Kharkiv Soviet film directors Soviet screenwriters Male screenwriters 20th-century screenwriters Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography Soviet military personnel of World War II People's Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Recipients of the USSR State Prize Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery {{USSR-film-director-stub