
Mark Donskoy
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday6 March 1901
Died20 March 1981 (age 80)
Place of birthOdessa, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Known credits25
Biography
Mark Semyonovich Donskoy (6 March [O.S. 21 February] 1901 – 21 March 1981) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and studio administrative head. Donskoy was born in Odessa in a Jewish family. During the Civil War, he served in the Red Army (1921-1923), and was held captive by the White Russians for ten months. After he was freed, he was discharged from military service. He studied psychology and psychiatry at the Crimean Medical School. In 1925 he graduated from the legal department of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Crimean M.V. Frunze University in Simferopol. He worked in investi…

The Orlovs
1978 · Director

The Orlovs
1978 · Screenplay

Nadezhda
1973 · Director

Hooray! We Have a Vacation!
1972 · Consulting Producer

Mother's Loyalty
1967 · Director

A Mother's Heart
1966 · Director

Hello, Children!
1962 · Director

Foma Gordeyev
1959 · Director

Foma Gordeyev
1959 · Writer

The Horse That Cried
1957 · Director

Mother
1956 · Director

Mother
1956 · Writer

Alitet Leaves for the Hills
1949 · Director

The Village Teacher
1947 · Director

The Taras Family
1945 · Director

The Taras Family
1945 · Screenplay

Rainbow
1944 · Director

How the Steel Was Tempered
1942 · Screenplay

How the Steel Was Tempered
1942 · Director

Fighting Film Collection No. 9
1942 · Director

The Romantics
1941 · Director

My Universities
1940 · Director

My Universities
1940 · Writer

Brother of a Hero
1940 · Producer

My Apprenticeship
1939 · Director

My Apprenticeship
1939 · Writer

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938 · Director

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938 · Writer

Song of Happiness
1934 · Director

Price of a Man
1929 · Director

His Excellency
1928 · Editor

In the Big City
1927 · Director

In the Big City
1927 · Writer

Prostitute
1927 · Passerby
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